Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMES[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
More William James Quotes
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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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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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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