“William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by "making up our minds to"-but that we can change… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than… — Ruth Gordon 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
“Our great American philosopher William James has said - "We have as many personalities as there are people who know us." To… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James wrote in 1892.prl.2 Most… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Since novelty is what your brain craves, you’ll be tempted to move on to something new, and that could be what makes… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“William James wrote (in Principles of Psychology in 1890): "In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every… — Joshua Foer 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
“The Poet" The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry His power is his left hand It is idle weak… — Delmore Schwartz 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
“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
“William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ...… — Bertrand Russell 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
“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
“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
“The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart… — William J. Bennett 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
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. --William James — William James Copy Share Image
“I don't know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name.” — John Green 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
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging of an uncompleted task. ~ William James ~” — Dee Cohen Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
“Next Day Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
