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 JAMESScience, 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.
More William James Quotes
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Man, 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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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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