We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMESWe may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMESModern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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 JAMESHistory is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMESWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMESWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMESTime itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESThe total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESMen habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES