On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
More William James Quotes
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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, 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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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