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Philosophical Quotes by William James
- Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
- In business for yourself, not by yourself.
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
- Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- Belief creates the actual fact.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
- Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
- When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
- Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
- The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
- It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
- Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
- There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
- The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
- If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
More Philosophical Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle