The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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