The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESWe want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMESEverything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMESThe prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESI myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMESOn pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES