Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
More William James Quotes
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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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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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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