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.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
More William James Quotes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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