All William James Quotes
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… Added
- In business for yourself, not by yourself. Business
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,… Agent
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. Alive
- Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door. Begins
- The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… Desire
- . . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. Bystanders
- The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands. Country
- [Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things. Attempt
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness… Absolutely
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what… Book
- If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances… All
- From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every… Art
- For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. Calls
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel… Alas
- There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE… Bird
- Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. Communicate
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness. Consciousness
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the… Bed
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson… Anxieties