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.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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