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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

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