“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual -… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“William James said, ‘We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.” — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside,… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“As to Gurdjieff's power to renew his own energies, its essence had been understood by psychologists of the nineteenth century, decades before… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“-“The greatest discovery of this generation is the knowledge that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind”… — Sekou Obadias Copy Share Image
“Ultra god Scott Jurek summed up the Young Guns’ unofficial creed with a quote from William James he stuck on the end… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“O intalnire cu filozoful William James mi-a lasat o impresie de neuitat. Nu am putut sa nu tin minte aceasta scena: in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher,… — Alice James Books 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 border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views.… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
“All our life,” William James told us in the prologue, “so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“For at least a century, psychologists and philosophers have suggested that our urge to explain the world is analogous to our urge… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“What would have happened if Einstein had advanced something equally new in the sphere of religion or politics? English people would have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —WILLIAM JAMES” — John Green Copy Share Image
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, consciousness and understanding are always tied to a short time span, which was called the specious present by the philosopher and… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Darwin concluded that language ability is “an instinctive tendency to acquire an art,” a design that is not peculiar to humans but… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience that religion “consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
