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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."
"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
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"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy."
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
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