Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
More William James Quotes
-
-
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES -
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES -
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES -
We 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 JAMES -
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMES -
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Science, 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 JAMES