When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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 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 JAMESCircumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMES… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMESGive your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMESMen’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMESBoth thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESEach of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES