What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESWe are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
More William James Quotes
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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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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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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