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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.

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

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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