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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 ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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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