Famous Quotes / William James
150 Quotations by William James
- 101. The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
- 102. The emotions are not always subject to reason... but they are always subject to action. When thought ...
- 103. The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
- 104. The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways ...
- 105. The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed ...
- 106. The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholes ...
- 107. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- 108. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their ...
- 109. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner ...
- 110. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- 111. The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for our ...
- 112. The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
- 113. The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already t ...
- 114. The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our c ...
- 115. The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
- 116. The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. ...
- 117. The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult ...
- 118. The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmfu ...
- 119. The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is o ...
- 120. There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.