All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
More William James Quotes
-
-
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMES -
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMES -
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMES -
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMES -
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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 -
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMES