There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see. WILLIAM JAMES HelpingOthersUnconditionalVolunteering
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important. WILLIAM JAMES DifferencesImportantPersonality
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. WILLIAM JAMES FeelingsSelfWorld
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits. WILLIAM JAMES EducationalMemoriesPhilosophy
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. WILLIAM JAMES CivilizationClassFear
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one WILLIAM JAMES OwingTruthViews
I 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 JAMES BelieveIdeasTruth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit. WILLIAM JAMES ImportantRealizingTeacher
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. WILLIAM JAMES EmergenciesEncouragementSith
The 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 JAMES BrieflyThinkingTrueWay
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. WILLIAM JAMES EffectsIntellectShows
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands. WILLIAM JAMES CountryTeacherTeaching
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. WILLIAM JAMES FluxNamesReflection
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. WILLIAM JAMES FactsModelsRoleVirtue
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. WILLIAM JAMES BlessedDeceptionGivingUp
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. WILLIAM JAMES AgonyIndividualLonely
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last. WILLIAM JAMES MeaningfulMotivationalPerseverance
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things. WILLIAM JAMES GraceOrderUnseen
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. WILLIAM JAMES CirclesPeopleSith
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being. WILLIAM JAMES BasedInspirationalLifeTest
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. WILLIAM JAMES AlliesEducationEnemy
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein WILLIAM JAMES DogmatizeHypothesisTruth
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