The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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