black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
WILLIAM JAMES

Demanded Everything Facts
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMES

Individual Men Self
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Contribution Effort World
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Philosophy School
The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMES

Better Strenuous Taste
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Funny Habit
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
WILLIAM JAMES

Dog Littles Writing
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Able Accompanying Thinking
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

Mean Reality Truth
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Knowledge Science
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMES

Consciousness May Splits
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMES

Interesting Most Personal

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes