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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

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States

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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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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