“When the imagination and willpower are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”

Quoted in: Paul G. Thomas (1979) Psychofeedback: practical psychocybernetics. p. 84.

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French psychologist and pharmacist 1857–1926

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