威廉·詹姆斯把关于真理的演讲、评论或论述合辑为《真理的意义》，首次出版于1909年。
重要的实用结论是，找到真理确实需要赢得争论，但其意义并非在于我的论点击败了你们的论点。
The important practical conclusion is that finding the truth does require winning arguments, but not in the sense that my argument defeats yours.
这段话时至今天仍有其意义：我们应当安然入眠，抑或用战斗唤醒真理，召唤一生中足以匹敌奥林匹亚诸神的英雄传说？
The message for us today is blunt: Do we remain comfortably asleep, or are we struggling to awake to the truth that life calls for a heroic response worthy of an Olympian?
在Shiraz（伊朗西南部城市），他进行了一个不大可能的尝试，他试图通过默罕默德·哈菲兹作于14世纪的伟大诗作，来解释伊朗“内在真理的复杂性和意义的多重性”。
In Shiraz he embarks on an improbable attempt to explain Iran’s “full complexity of inner truths and multiple meanings” through the works of its great 14th-century poet, Mohammad Hafez.
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