Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMESWe 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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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