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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

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth

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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