Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESMen’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMESThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESEach of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMES