Quote by William James
Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life w

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

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse. – William James

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James

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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. – Jack Kevorkian

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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But its a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, youre not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes

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Sometimes I get so bold and Im so confident about what Im doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because its a really liberating feeling to experience what its like to not care. – John Mayer

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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. – George Washington

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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. – Charles Lindbergh

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