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«Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
grapple, grappling, topsy-turvy, Topsy
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«Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.»
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