William James Quotes
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under...
Show MoreOur belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful o...
Show MoreHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m...
Show Morethe exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they h...
Show MoreWhenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between d...
Show MoreThe thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmfu...
Show MoreIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect ...
Show MoreBeyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...
Show MoreFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed...
Show MoreWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length...
Show MoreNot that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and mak...
Show MoreThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude...
Show MoreBe not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility...
Show MoreMost men's friendships are too inarticulate.
Psychology is the science of mental life
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accid...
Show MoreBe willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the conseq...
Show MoreGenius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Work usually follows will.
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal form...
Show MoreThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things...
Show MoreIt does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their reli...
Show MoreNow, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people...
Show MoreRound about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud...
Show MoreOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep o...
Show MoreAn outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a no...
Show MoreSee the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...
Show MoreMost of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on va...
Show MoreThe question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be syste...
Show MoreWhy may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be ma...
Show MoreThe mind is at every stage a theater of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the co...
Show MoreSeek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...
Show MoreFour Characters in Consciousness—How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters ...
Show MoreBut it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the sa...
Show MoreMetaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental concep...
Show MoreA man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers,...
Show MoreThere is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurly...
Show MoreEarnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to...
Show MoreThrough prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: en...
Show MoreNo fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existen...
Show MoreIt is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presenc...
Show MoreIt is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was no...
Show MoreScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conception...
Show MoreBe not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, o...
Show MoreI, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfu...
Show MoreOur faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our ...
Show MoreSince belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily al...
Show MoreMoral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we...
Show MoreAn unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference ...
Show MoreThe unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existe...
Show MoreThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our...
Show MoreTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering thei...
Show MoreHabit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more mi...
Show MoreTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long a...
Show MoreWe know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along w...
Show MoreIf merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and i...
Show MoreTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Footnotes the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...
Show MoreIt may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some ev...
Show MoreMost people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sym...
Show MoreThe exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evi...
Show MoreWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
Show MoreA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most...
Show MoreMy experience is what I agree to attend to.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought ...
Show MoreIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
