"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and..." - Quote by William James
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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“True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.”
“We are mere bundles of habits.”
“Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.”
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“Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”
“Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.”
“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”