There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. — 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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being. — William James Copy Share Image
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. — William James Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. — William James Copy Share Image
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. --William James — William James Copy Share Image
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. --William James — William James Copy Share Image
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as… — William James Copy Share Image
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to… — William James Copy Share Image
Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the… — William James Copy Share Image
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just… — William James Copy Share Image
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS… — William James Copy Share Image
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe life is worth living and your belief will… — 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
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account… — 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
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new… — 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… — William James Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more… — William James Copy Share Image
Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing… — William James Copy Share Image
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use… — William James Copy Share Image
“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” — William James Copy Share Image
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness. — William James Copy Share Image
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” — 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
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. — William James Copy Share Image
“What was bright and exciting becomes weary, flat, and unprofitable.” — 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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. — William James Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere. — William James Copy Share
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William James Copy Share
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share
