We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMESI am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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 great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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