… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMES… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMESTo improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMESThe God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMESThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMES