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, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” — Wallace J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD:… — Gene Roddenberry 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
“Lincoln once began a letter saying: “Everybody likes a compliment.” William James said: “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
“ The Cloud of Unknowing was written by someone who was exceedingly tough-minded in the sense in which William James used the… — Ira Progoff Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.-WILLIAM JAMES” — Anonymous 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
“More daring, though, was Jung’s uninhibited interest in spiritualism, which by this time had become a controversial topic on both sides of… — Gary Valentine Lachman 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
“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
“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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. --William James — William James 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
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging of an uncompleted task. ~ William James ~” — Dee Cohen Copy Share Image
