Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMESEach of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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