Habit 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 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 JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESWe must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESWe with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMESHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMESExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESThe intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMESA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESEach of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES