There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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History is a bath of blood.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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