You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMESOn pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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New habits can be launched.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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