Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESAs long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESOwing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMESTime itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMESThe emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESAll religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMESThe drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMESIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES