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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts 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

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