Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESOn pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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 JAMESWe are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMESLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMESAnything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES