black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Positive Wisdom Wise
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Insanity Vision
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMES

Affection Alpha Omega
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Dream Inspirational
Truth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMES

Happens Ideas Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMES

Block Data Mind
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fears Form Great Life Things
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive
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
Our 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 JAMES

Alive Cost Wall
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Book Cat Conservations Dog
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMES

Acceptance Wisdom Wise
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
Men’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 JAMES

Men Mind Way
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Attitude Authenticity
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes