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

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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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