Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESSince you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMESModern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMESWhat would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMES… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMESThe impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMESFootnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
WILLIAM JAMESTo know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMESTo improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMES