Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
More William James Quotes
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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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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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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