William James Quote: We have to be ready to live today...

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

Source: Pragmatism - 1907

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Beauty and hideousness, love and cruelty, life and death keep house together in indissoluble partnership; and there gradually steals over us, instead of the old warm notion of a man-loving Deity, that of an awful power that neither hates nor loves, but rolls all things together meaninglessly to a common doom. This is an uncanny, a sinister, a nightmare view of life, and its peculiar poisonousness, lies expressly in our holding two things together which cannot possibly agree.

— William James

Source: Is Life Worth Living? - Chapter III - 1895