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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

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