Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMESPure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESYou may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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