The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMESThe prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESModern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESSo our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESAs long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESThe education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES