The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
More William James Quotes
-
-
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMES -
Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMES -
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
WILLIAM JAMES -
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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 -
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
WILLIAM JAMES -
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMES -
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMES -
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