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William James Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action Picture Quote #1

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? Picture Quote #1

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics Picture Quote #1

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately Picture Quote #1

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice Picture Quote #1

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness Picture Quote #1

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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption Picture Quote #1

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life’s evils, is set free in those who have religious faith Picture Quote #1

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter Picture Quote #1

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God’s influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled Picture Quote #1

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome Picture Quote #1

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours Picture Quote #1

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In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is ‘noble,’ that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman Picture Quote #1

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny Picture Quote #1

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example Picture Quote #1

Men’s activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind Picture Quote #1

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections Picture Quote #1

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought Picture Quote #1

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure Picture Quote #1

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else Picture Quote #1

Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes Picture Quote #1

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it Picture Quote #1

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education Picture Quote #1

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great Picture Quote #1

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The work that leads to a doctor’s degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one’s growth as a man to one’s growth as a specialist Picture Quote #1

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes Picture Quote #1

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories Picture Quote #1

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune Picture Quote #1

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not Picture Quote #1

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible Picture Quote #1

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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action (William James Quotes) Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? (William James Quotes) Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics (William James Quotes) If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately (William James Quotes) When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice (William James Quotes) Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness. (William James Quotes) The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. (William James Quotes) Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life’s evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. (William James Quotes) Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter. (William James Quotes) We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God’s influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled. (William James Quotes) It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. (William James Quotes) The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. (William James Quotes) In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is ‘noble,’ that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman. (William James Quotes) All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny. (William James Quotes) We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example. (William James Quotes) Men’s activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. (William James Quotes) Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections (William James Quotes) Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought. (William James Quotes) How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. (William James Quotes) The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else (William James Quotes) Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes. (William James Quotes) The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it. (William James Quotes) To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education (William James Quotes) The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great (William James Quotes) The work that leads to a doctor’s degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one’s growth as a man to one’s growth as a specialist. (William James Quotes) The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes (William James Quotes) 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories (William James Quotes) Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune (William James Quotes) Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not (William James Quotes) An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible (William James Quotes)

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