To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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