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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

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