150 Quotations by William James
- 121. There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- 122. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- 123. There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other phil ...
- 124. There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other ...
- 125. There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious ...
- 126. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
- 127. To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- 128. To change one's life we must start immediately and do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
- 129. To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
- 130. To spend life for something which outlasts it.
- 131. To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
- 132. We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
- 133. We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
- 134. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue ...
- 135. We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
- 136. We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We p ...
- 137. We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simpl ...
- 138. We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
- 139. We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the ...
- 140. We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the oppos ...
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