"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."
― William James
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"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
― William James |
"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
― William James |
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
― William James |
"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."
― William James |
"Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind."
― William James
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
― William James
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"All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!""
― William James
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"Our experience is what we attend to."
― William James
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"In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing."
― William James
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
― William James |
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
― William James |
"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease."
― William James |
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
― William James
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"The strenuous life tastes better."
― William James |
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
― William James
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"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, which is not."
― William James |
"Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities."
― William James
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"We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it."
― William James
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"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."
― William James
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"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
― William James |
"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick."
― William James |
"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
― William James |
"A sense of humor is just common sense dancing."
― William James |
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
― William James |
"The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers."
― William James
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"Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so."
― William James
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
― William James
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"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."
― William James
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"To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."
― William James
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