Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
More William James Quotes
-
-
How 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 JAMES -
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 JAMES -
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
WILLIAM JAMES -
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMES -
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES -
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES -
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES