3 December 2020 William James The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
3 December 2020 William James Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
3 December 2020 William James Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
3 December 2020 William James The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
3 December 2020 William James The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
3 December 2020 William James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
3 December 2020 William James ‘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.
3 December 2020 William James Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
3 December 2020 William James There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
3 December 2020 William James The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
3 December 2020 William James A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
3 December 2020 William James Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
3 December 2020 William James The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
3 December 2020 William James Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
3 December 2020 William James If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
