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.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
More William James Quotes
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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