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«The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, convenience, exclusively, processes, recognizes, retail, retailing, wholesale
«I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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gentlemen, ladies, Ladies and, perspective, worlds
«Immortality is but a way of saying that the determination of expectancy is the essential factor of rationality.»
«The sin of Science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, the tendency to renovate its ideas. Our education is a ceaseless compromise between the conservative and the progressive factors.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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ceaseless, conceptions, renovate, renovating, The Progressive
«An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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conceptual, conform, conform to, perceptual
«The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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altogether, articulately, dimension, impulses, in a way, mystical, originate in, plunge, possessing, region, sensible, supernatural, understandable
«There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''»
«True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, corroborate, validate, validated, validates, validating, verify
«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 frustration.»
«When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.»
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