The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth, 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 JAMESScience, 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 JAMESIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMESSince you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESI am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMES