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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
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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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Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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