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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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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Mean Reality Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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