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William James Quotes - Page 8

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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Life, Change, Philosophical

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Life, Friendship, Littles

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

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

Philosophy, Mind, Quiet

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

Faith, Doubt, Abyss

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

Appreciation, Winning, People

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

Men, Use, Small Parts

William James (1918). “Selected Papers on Philosophy”

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Wish, Care, Enough

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.84, Harvard University Press

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Sublime

William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

Order, Grace, Unseen

Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Science, Authority, Accounts

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.39, 谷月社

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

Religious, Love Life, Development

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.507, Courier Corporation

When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.

People, Important, Importance

Individuality is founded in feeling

Inspirational, Feelings, Individuality

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.124, University of Illinois Press

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

Respect, Struggle, Adversity

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

Form, Great Things, Fears Of Life

William James (1925). “The Philosophy of William James: Drawn from His Own Works”

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Memories, Thinking, Experience

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Believe, Men, Needs

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Life, Success, Character

William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.16, Courier Corporation

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

Fate, Evil, Spinning

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Philosophical, Matter, Cases

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.99, University of Illinois Press

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

Taken, Mean, Ideas

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Life, Success, Strong

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