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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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 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 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

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