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Idea Quotes by William James
- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- 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…
- Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
- An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
- Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
- A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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