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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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The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in it stains the ancient mass but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
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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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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
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The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
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