The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Science, 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.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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