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William James Quotes - Page 11

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Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Opportunity, Emotional, May

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

Philosophy, Law, Medicine

William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.5, Courier Corporation

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

Past, Self, Habit

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

Educational, Philosophy, Science

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.57, Nuvision Pubns

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

Lying, Order, Unseen

The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

Philosophical, Men, Views

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.52, Routledge

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Success, Self Esteem, Congratulations

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

Habit

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.

Names, World, Way

William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

Men

Quoted in the Oxford Book of Marriage (1990).

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Religious, Facts, Temper

William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.5, 谷月社

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Optimistic, Acting, Way

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.424, Courier Corporation

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

Men, Roots, Differences

William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Doors, Miracle, Grace

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.270, Courier Corporation

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Life, Change, Positive

William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Summer, Cutting, Winter

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

Happiness, Cheerful, Path

"Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

War, Party, Holiday

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Truth, Mean, Ideas

William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.48, William James

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

Art, Philosophy, Educational

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

We are mere bundles of habits.

Habit, Bundles, Mere

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Truth, Names, Ideas

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

Memories, Philosophy, Educational

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.96, Nuvision Pubns

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

Reality, Static, Latter

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Encouragement, Sith, Emergencies

Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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