It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMESSo to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
More William James Quotes
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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