What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
More William James Quotes
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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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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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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