Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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.
More William James Quotes
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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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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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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