black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

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

Believe Ideas Truth
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inward Paradise Usual
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Able Accompanying Thinking
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMES

Democracy Genius People
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMES

Circles People Sith
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMES

Faith Hypothesis
Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMES

Feelings Individuality Inspirational
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Peculiar Self
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Function Intellect Thinking
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Believe Experience Lying

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes