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William James Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James, A quote by William James
Tagged: Principle, human, Appreciated, Philosophy
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Tagged: Inspirational, Trust Yourself, Believe In Yourself
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
— William James, The Psychiatric Interview(Practical Guides in Psychiatry)
Tagged: Meeting People, Personality
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Tagged: Change of mind, realization, Personality, way of thinking
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James, The Correspondence of William James Vol. 12
Tagged: Life, difference
“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”
— William James, The Principles Of Psychology
Tagged: Genius, Foresight
“...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.”
— William James, Remarks at the Peace Banquet
Tagged: Philosophers, Philosophy, humor, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Magazine, TheAtlantic.com, Atlantic, News, Opinion, breaking news, analysis, commentary, Business, Politics, Culture, international, Science, Technology, national and life
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
— William James, The Principles Of Psychology
Tagged: Choices, Misery
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me’, and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
— William James, The Principles Of Psychology
Tagged: Unlocking Your Potential
“Theories thus become instruments, not answers to enigmas in which we can rest.”
— William James, What Pragmatism Means
Tagged: Strangers
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
— William James, The Varieties Of Religious Experience
Tagged: Philosophy
“War is the [strong] life, it is life in extremes, war taxes are the only ones man never hesitates to pay, as the budgets of the all the nations show us.”
— William James, The Moral Equivalent of War
Tagged: strategy
“All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them.”
— William James, The Moral Equivalent of War
Tagged: Life
“The best way to live is to assume you have free will but everyone else is pre-determined.”
— William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1
Tagged: Life
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
— William James, The Book of Best Sports Quotes: FUNNY, INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ON THE SPORTS WE LOVE
Tagged: Motivational Sport Quotes
“[We] out to enter more deeply into the aesthetic and ethical point of view of [our] opponents. Do that first in any controversy, when was the point and your opponent will follow.”
— William James, The Moral Equivalent of War
Tagged: strategy
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1
Tagged: Psychology, Art, Wisdom, Intelligence, Life
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.”
— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience; A Study in Human Nature
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