William JamesThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.371HopeHumanityTruth
William JamesThe 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. ✨ William James (2016). William James: Essays … ▶372Thought
William JamesWhat excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers o… ▶361DeathLifeLove
William JamesAn enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. ✨ William James (1987). Essa… ▶341DeathLife
William JamesThe 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 w… ▶341Life
William JamesReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. ✨ 'McClure's Magazi… ▶374Humanity
William JamesIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.375Life
William JamesThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ✨ Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33342Humanity
William JamesWhen two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of it… ▶353PhilosophyThought
William JamesWe [may] answer the question: Why is snow white? by saying, For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, w… ▶353ThoughtTruth
William JamesFirst... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that t… ▶342ThoughtTruth
William JamesGive your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.353Love
William JamesIf, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when … ▶353LifeReadingThought
William JamesI wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. ✨ William James (1983). Essays in Psychology, p.270, Harvard University Press364Time
William JamesStrength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.353Reflection
William JamesBelief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one… ▶375DeathHumanityPhilosophy
William JamesDo something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the t… ▶376Time
William JamesEvents are influenced by our very great desires.365Politics
William JamesOur lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots… ▶343Love
William JamesRomeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built betwe… ▶332Love
William JamesEvery 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 (2016). William James: … ▶343HopeLife
William JamesThere is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness. ✨ William James (2004). The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature, p.280, Library of Alex… ▶366HumanityLife
William JamesBegin to be now what you will be hereafter.322Politics
William JamesWe must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.344LifeReading
William JamesIn business for yourself, not by yourself.322Humanity
William JamesScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ✨ William James (1986… ▶377LifePoliticsTruth
William JamesThe total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other. ✨ William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). The Heart of William Jam… ▶333Love
William JamesWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. ✨ William James (1983). Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on So… ▶366LifeThought
William JamesA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. ✨ William James (2016). William James: Essays and Lectures, p.61, Rou… ▶344Philosophy
William JamesPhilosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.311PhilosophyThought
