'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to … - William James

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Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

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.

Flux, Material, Name, Names, Pure, Reflection

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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Artist, Attain, Eye, Images, Memories, Passion

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Happiness, Happy, Music, Philosophical, Sing

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Chief, Personal, Relaxing, Responsibility, Self, Worry

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

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

Altering, Attitudes, Discovery, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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In a church, I am a saint. In a public place, I am a lady. In my own home, I am a devil. . . . My house is where I can do as I please, scream and yell and dance and fall on the floor if I like. I am myself when I am in my home.

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