Love Quotes by William James

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

— William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

— William James

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

— William James

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

— William James

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

— William James

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

— William James

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

— William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

— William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

— William James

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

— William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love…

— William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

— William James

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

— William James

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

— William James

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

— William James

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

— William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

— William James

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the…

— William James

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state…

— William James

The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting…

— William James

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon…

— William James

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and…

— William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt,…

— 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

The perfection of rottenness.

— William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

— William James

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

— William James

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

— William James

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

— William James

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

— William James

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

— William James

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

— William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

— William James