That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESThat which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMESNew habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESThe instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMESBoth thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMESNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES