Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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