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William James Quotes - Page 7

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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Life And Love, Exercise, Effort

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

Believe, People, Propaganda

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Life, Philosophical, Fate

William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Jealousy, Emotional, Guilt

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.185, Library of America

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

Self, Feelings, World

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.310, Courier Corporation

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Lying, Believe, Belief

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 3 (1907)

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

Lazy, Weakness, Proud

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

Attitude, Mean, Ugly

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

Life, Power, Perfect

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

Creating, Suffering, Built

William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.16, Harvard University Press

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Evil, Ruling, Prove

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Philosophy, Way, Facts

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

Belief, Action

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.134, University of Illinois Press

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

Excellence, Would Be, Attention

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

Spiritual, Two, Natural

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.161, Booklassic

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Inspirational Life, Believe, Use

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

Use, Half, Limits

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

Differences, Degrees, Different

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

If it works, it's true.

Working It, Ifs

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Unique, Novelty, Embrace

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Happiness, Sadness, Reality

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

Destiny, Men, Tree

All religions begin with the cry Help.

Religion, Helping, Cry

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