3 December 2020 William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
3 December 2020 William James The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
3 December 2020 William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
3 December 2020 William James Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
3 December 2020 William James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
3 December 2020 William James Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
3 December 2020 William James If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
3 December 2020 William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
3 December 2020 William James 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.
3 December 2020 William James The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
3 December 2020 William James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
3 December 2020 William James Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
3 December 2020 William James We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
3 December 2020 William James Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
3 December 2020 William James If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
3 December 2020 William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
3 December 2020 William James The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
3 December 2020 William James We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
3 December 2020 William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
3 December 2020 William James The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
3 December 2020 William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
