black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspire Mean Truth
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Gone Instant
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Education Excellence
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Insanity Vision
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit Principles Thinking
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Everything Insightful Making
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMES

Owing Truth Views
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happen Ideas Truth
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Belief Really Rules
How 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 JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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

Example Human Nature Proud
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes