There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
-
-
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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 -
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMES -
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMES -
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMES -
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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 -
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMES -
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES -
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
WILLIAM JAMES