Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMESThe intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
More William James Quotes
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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