There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
More William James Quotes
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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