All William James Quotes
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… Actual
- If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the… All
- Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in… Appear
- Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. Capacity
- The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the… Adequate
- The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. Fundamental
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such… Act
- The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly… Admiration
- To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt. Abyss
- Lay plans as if we were to be immortal. Immortal
- We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. Any
- It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. Art
- Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses,… All
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken… Act
- 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. Categories
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which… Actually Done
- To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that… Admit
- Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences… Any
- How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they… All
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an… All