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There are 86 quotes for the author William James

Quotations 21 to 40 of 86 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

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, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

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.

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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