In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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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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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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