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Facts Quotes by William James
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
- 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…
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
- Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
- Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it…
- 'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word…
- The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
- As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
- Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely…
- ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such…
- Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods…
- Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and…
- Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
- How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they…
- Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- Belief creates the actual fact.
- Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
- What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
- The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by…
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