More from William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William JamesWilliam James That which is most personal, is most interesting.
William JamesWilliam James The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William JamesWilliam James The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William JamesWilliam James We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
William JamesWilliam James The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
William JamesWilliam James The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
William JamesWilliam James A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William JamesWilliam James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
William JamesWilliam James Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William JamesWilliam James When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
William JamesWilliam James To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
William JamesWilliam James Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William JamesWilliam James Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
William JamesWilliam James Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
William JamesWilliam James We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
William JamesWilliam James
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