All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESAll religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMESFacts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMESAt bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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 JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESWe can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESWe want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMES