A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESSince you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMESThe prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMESWe must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESA man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMESPure 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 JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMESTouch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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