To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESThe total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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