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William James Quotes about Feelings

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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Feelings, Together, Path

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

Character, Sea, Feelings

William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

Stay Positive, Feelings, Together

"The Heart of William James".

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

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

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Feel Good, Alcohol, Feelings

Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lecture 1, p. 16

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Emotional, Feelings, Action

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

Educational, Philosophy, Feelings

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.20, Nuvision Pubns

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

Feelings, Intellectual, Mind

William James (1955). “The principles of psychology”

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Inspirational, Feelings, Path

"The Principles of Psychology".

To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.

Spiritual, Religious, Feelings

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.14, Courier Corporation

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

War, Feelings, Facts

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

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

Reality, Psychology, Feelings

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.58, Courier Corporation

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Real, Character, Feelings

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

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Feelings, May, Determined

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.451, Library of America

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