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WILLIAM JAMES
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
WILLIAM JAMES
I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our...
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...
WILLIAM JAMES
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...
WILLIAM JAMES
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
WILLIAM JAMES
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this su...
WILLIAM JAMES
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...
WILLIAM JAMES
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on bo...
WILLIAM JAMES
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experi...
WILLIAM JAMES
Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMES
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
WILLIAM JAMES
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is o...
WILLIAM JAMES
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments ma...
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and in...
WILLIAM JAMES
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid ...
WILLIAM JAMES
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
WILLIAM JAMES
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other ...
WILLIAM JAMES
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the oppos...
WILLIAM JAMES
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his at...
WILLIAM JAMES
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sym...
WILLIAM JAMES
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy...
WILLIAM JAMES
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself,...
WILLIAM JAMES
These, then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and ...
WILLIAM JAMES
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion....
WILLIAM JAMES
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMES
The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.
WILLIAM JAMES
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length...
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his att...
WILLIAM JAMES
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great...
WILLIAM JAMES
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
WILLIAM JAMES
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squ...
WILLIAM JAMES
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you...
WILLIAM JAMES
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to b...
WILLIAM JAMES
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already t...
WILLIAM JAMES
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and in...
WILLIAM JAMES
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.
WILLIAM JAMES
Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the ...
WILLIAM JAMES
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William Jame...
WILLIAM JAMES
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible
WILLIAM JAMES
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is pur...
WILLIAM JAMES
No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES
Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
WILLIAM JAMES

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