On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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