150 Quotations by William James
- 61. Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
- 62. It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
- 63. It is only by risking... that we live at all.
- 64. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will ...
- 65. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaste ...
- 66. It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- 67. Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current ...
- 68. Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposi ...
- 69. Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
- 70. Man lives for science as well as bread.
- 71. Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for hero ...
- 72. Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under ...
- 73. Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving ...
- 74. Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
- 75. Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
- 76. Most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of the ...
- 77. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dre ...
- 78. Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be con ...
- 79. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
- 80. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments ma ...
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