All William James Quotes
- If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. Alcohol
- There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. Cause
- Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. Day
- The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. Cure
- If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. Attain
- It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never… Age
- The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. All
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. Awake
- There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. Affinity
- If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. Any
- Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. Advance
- We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. Call
- If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. Door
- Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. Currents
- Man lives for science as well as bread. Bread
- The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. Awareness
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. Contradict
- We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. Cling
- An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. Force
- Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. Brilliance