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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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 can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision

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