No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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