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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

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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Flux Names Reflection
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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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Art Force Process
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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