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William James - From the Attitude category:
- b.1842 d.1910...
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. (William James)
William James - From the Attitude category:
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. (William James)
William James - From the Belief category:
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. (William James)
William James - From the Desire category:
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. (William James)
William James - From the Drunkenness category:
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature. (William James)
William James - From the Drunkenness category:
If 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. (William James)
William James - From the Fear category:
These then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James)
William James - From the Friendship category:
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, loving, human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride. (William James)
William James - From the Genius category:
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (William James)
William James - From the Goodness category:
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do. (William James)
William James - From the Habit category:
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. (William James)
William James - From the Immortality category:
Lay plans as if we were to be immortal. (William James)
William James - From the Immortality category:
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. (William James)
William James - From the Individuality category:
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making. (William James)
William James - From the Intellect category:
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. (William James)
William James - From the Life category:
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. (William James)
William James - From the Life category:
Life feels like a real fight – as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem. (William James)
William James - From the Passion category:
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. (William James)
William James - From the Quality category:
As-if principle: If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. (William James)
William James - From the Revelation category:
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. (William James)
William James - From the Risk category:
It is only by taking risks from one hour to the other that we live at all. (William James)
William James - From the Struggle category:
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. (William James)
William James - From the Taste category:
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. (William James)
William James - From the Thinking category:
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices. (William James)
William James - From the Wisdom category:
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (William James)
William James - From the Worry category:
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. (William James)
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