Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
More William James Quotes
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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