The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind — William James Copy Share Image
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. — William James Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on… — William James Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of his mind. — William James Copy Share Image
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and… — William James Copy Share Image
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change… — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon… — William James Copy Share Image
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. — William James Copy Share Image
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. — William James Copy Share Image
Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in… — William James Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. — William James Copy Share Image
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other. — William James Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a… — William James Copy Share Image
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral… — William James Copy Share Image
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly… — William James Copy Share Image
“Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to… — William James Copy Share Image
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is… — William James Copy Share Image
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
