Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMESFacts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
More William James Quotes
-
-
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES -
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES -
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMES -
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
WILLIAM JAMES -
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMES -
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMES -
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMES -
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES -
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES -
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES -
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMES