Quotes William James

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a cer...

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are prac...

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer....

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to it...

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so lon...

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a bel...

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderne...

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's l...

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom noth...

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to ...

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about an...

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. ...

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we m...

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial intera...

Time itself comes in drops....

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate so...

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, ...

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its con...

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly....

To spend life for something which outlasts it....

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the n...

Truth is what works....

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. ...

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference ...

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unend...