Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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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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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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