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 JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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History is a bath of blood.
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