All William James Quotes
- The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. Action
- How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender. Aging
- As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,… All
- No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody. Failure
- The perfection of rottenness. Inspirational
- How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… Change
- Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. Agreed
- Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Form
- Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. Human
- There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep… Been
- All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny. All
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it… Belief
- Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will… Exercise
- When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. Action
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself… Appear
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of… Conscious
- Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not… Both
- There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. Evil
- There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!" Famous Love
- Effort is a measure of a Man. Effort