We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMESNo bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
More William James Quotes
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New habits can be launched.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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