The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESOrganization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESIn the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESWhat would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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 JAMESIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESI am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMES