Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
More William James Quotes
-
-
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMES -
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMES -
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMES -
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMES -
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMES -
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES