A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
WILLIAM JAMESA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESSo our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESA new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
WILLIAM JAMESYou can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit 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 JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESOwing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES