Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
More William James Quotes
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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