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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

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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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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
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Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
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The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.
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We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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