A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESThe total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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