150 Quotations by William James
- 81. Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

- 82. Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

- 83. Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful o ...

- 84. Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful o ...

- 85. Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our ...

- 86. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

- 87. Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of co ...

- 88. Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

- 89. Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life

- 90. Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...

- 91. Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adula ...

- 92. Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

- 93. Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

- 94. Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

- 95. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

- 96. The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unwo ...

- 97. The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

- 98. The best position is one of noninterference with another's peculiar ways of being happy, provided th ...

- 99. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sym ...

- 100. The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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