Quotes William James

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, an...

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an unco...

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer c...

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a w...

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religious...

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the great...

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as w...

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power....

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux o...

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capa...

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all ...

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a goo...

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

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existen...

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individua...

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be a...

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook....

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal l...

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will...

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human bei...

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human bein...

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest ...

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that ...

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose ...

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, i...