Life Quotes by William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

— William James

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

— William James

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

— William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

— William James

The strenuous life tastes better

— William James

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

— William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

— William James

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

— William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for…

— William James

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

— William James

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

— William James

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back…

— William James

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

— William James

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

— William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. --William James

— William James

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

— William James

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the…

— William James

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just…

— William James

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

— William James

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as…

— William James

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…

— William James

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our…

— William James

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…

— William James

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon…

— William James

Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and…

— William James

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to…

— William James

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us…

— William James

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is…

— William James

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of…

— William James

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb…

— William James

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And…

— William James

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more…

— William James

“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on…

— William James

The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and…

— William James

“Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a…

— William James

“This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best…

— William James

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day…

— William James

Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a…

— William James

If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to…

— William James

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

— William James