Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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More William James Quotes
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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