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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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