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"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."
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"The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs."
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"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."
"All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen."
"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."
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"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."
"We are not in the world, the world is inside us."
"What you focus on gets prettier, what you love gets closer."
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"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
"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."
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
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