"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.“

-William James

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"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 we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."

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"Truth is what works."

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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."

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