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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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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