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William James Quotes

William James quotes about life

American Philosopher, Psychologist January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910

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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. William James
When all is said and done, we are in the end absolutely dependent on the universe; and into sacrifices and surrenders of some sort, deliberately looked at and accepted, we are drawn and pressed as into our only permanent positions of repose. Now in those states of mind which fall short of religion, the surrender is submitted to as an imposition of necessity, and the sacrifice is undergone at the very best without complaint. In the religious life, on the contrary, surrender and sacrifice are... William James
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies? and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. William James
William James quote: "If you can change your mind, you can change your life."
If you can change your mind, you can change your life. William James
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. William James
William James quote: "To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no..."
To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no exceptions. William James
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. William James
If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight. William James
William James quote: "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can..."
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James
William James quote: "The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence..."
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. William James
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms? William James
Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto. William James
William James quote: "To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. William James
William James quote: "To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it..."
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. William James
William James quote: "To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it..."
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. William James

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