True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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History is a bath of blood.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Truth happens to an idea
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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