Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
More William James Quotes
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Time itself comes in drops.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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