What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESNo living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
More William James Quotes
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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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.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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