150 Quotations by William James
- 21. Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness.
- 22. Events are influenced by our very great desires.
- 23. Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he f ...
- 24. Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a ch ...
- 25. Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
- 26. Everyone knows that on any given day, there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of ...
- 27. Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our mis ...
- 28. Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse.
- 29. Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- 30. Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is "All striving is vain," will never reign s ...
- 31. Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
- 32. Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
- 33. For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also ...
- 34. Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
- 35. Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher p ...
- 36. Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is w ...
- 37. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to b ...
- 38. Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vic ...
- 39. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
- 40. How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great ...
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