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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
WILLIAM JAMES

Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit Principles Thinking
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Force Process
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union

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