black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combine Enough Fact Facts
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Creativity Desire
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMES

People Talking Unhappiness
All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cry Helping Religion
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agony Individual Lonely
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Attitude Authenticity
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
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

Happiness Laughter Men
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMES

Free Race Vagueness Will
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMES

Creativity Mean Science
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMES

Grace Order Unseen

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes