To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
More William James Quotes
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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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