William James
William James50 quotes“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
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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 As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
William JamesWilliam James Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesWilliam James We 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 JamesWilliam James If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
William JamesWilliam James The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
William JamesWilliam James
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