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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
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"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."

"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."

"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."

"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."

"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."

"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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