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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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

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