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William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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 deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

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