Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. — 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
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
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. — William James Copy Share Image
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back… — 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
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits. — William James Copy Share Image
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for… — 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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together… — William James Copy Share Image
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual… — William James Copy Share Image
[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life… — 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
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
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
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb… — William James Copy Share Image
Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is… — William James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of… — William James Copy Share Image
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When… — William James Copy Share Image
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately. — William James Copy Share Image
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” — William James Copy Share Image
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. — 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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. — William James Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances. — William James Copy Share Image
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. — 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
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.” — 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
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