Truth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
More William James Quotes
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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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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