There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMESWe 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.
More William James Quotes
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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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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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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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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