Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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