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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
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
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

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