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William James Quotes about Reality

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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

Reality, Perception

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Change, Believe, Reality

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

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

Reality, Moments

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.322, Courier Corporation

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Truth, Reality, Order

William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Truth, Mean, Reality

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Routledge

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

Wall, Truth, Reality

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

Truth, Reality, Order

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.86, Routledge

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

Reality, Men, Hands

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

Truth, Reality, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

Reality, Frustration, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

Religious, Reality, Destiny

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.394, Harvard University Press

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

Reality, Ideas, Giving

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.74, 谷月社

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

Reality, Theatre, Heroism

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.123, Xist Publishing

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

Independent, Mean, Reality

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.27, 谷月社

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

Philosophical, Eye, Reality

Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.429, 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

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

Reality, Men, Evil

Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

Reality, Voice, Discipline

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 564, 1895.

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

Reality, Broken, Concepts

William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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