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• Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

  William James

  Truth, Names, Process

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.

  William James

  Spiritual, Religious, Feelings

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

  William James

  Spiritual, War, Men

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lectures 14 - 15 (1902)

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• No decision is, in itself, a decision.

  William James

  Decision

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• You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

  William James

  Experience, Cash, Streams

  1907 Pragmatism, lecture 2.

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• Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

  William James

  Long, Majority, Catchy

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• A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

  William James

  Differences

  "William James: The Essential Writings". Book by Bruce W. Wilshire, 1971.

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• Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.48, William James

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• To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

  William James

  Would Be, One Thing, Knows

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

  William James

  Truth, Reality, Order

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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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.

  William James

  Men, Mind, Way

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

  William James

  Men, Roots, Differences

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

  William James

  Birthday, Character, Age

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

  William James

  Teaching, Learning, Association

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.103, Nuvision Pubns

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• We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

  William James

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Quality

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• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  William James

  Thinking, Numbers, Space

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• Every claim creates an obligation.

  William James

  Claims, Obligation

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• We are mere bundles of habits.

  William James

  Habit, Bundles, Mere

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• In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

  William James

  Lying, Order, Unseen

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• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  William James

  Knowledge, Occupation, Life Is

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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• The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

  William James

  Education, World, Consciousness

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.497, Booklassic

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Fate, Evil

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

  William James

  Men, Doe, Cry

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• Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

  William James

  Mean, Men, Solitude

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

  William James

  Attention, Facts, Belief

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