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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

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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Flux Names Reflection
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance

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