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.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
More William James Quotes
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New habits can be launched.
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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.
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