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William James Quotes - Page 12

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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Men, Mind, Way

William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Agree

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Truth, Lying, Philosophical

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

Insanity, Vision, Facts

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

Bible, Religious, Book

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

Truth, Names, Process

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Powerful, Science, Data

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

Drinking, Bed, Rising

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

Men, Intellectual, Doubt

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life, Inspiration, Purpose

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Heart, Errors, World

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.19, Courier Corporation

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

Consciousness, Certain, Phenomenon

William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.260, Penguin

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Attention, Facts, Belief

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

Attitude, Circumstances, Mere

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

Psychology, Firsts, Lectures

One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

Spiritual, War, Men

The Varieties of Religious Experience Lectures 14 - 15 (1902)

I will act as if I do make a difference.

Differences, Making A Difference, Action

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

Success, Peace, Honesty

"Pete Seeger’s Last War" by David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

Truth, Names, Way

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.

Cash, Disease, Interpretation

Letter to H. G. Wells, 11 Sept. 1906

The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.

Thinking, Way

1907 Pragmatism, lecture 6.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Philosophy, Thinking, Stubborn

Every claim creates an obligation.

Claims, Obligation

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Quality

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

God, Vision, Essentials

Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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