Quotes by William James

William James

William James

American philosopher

Lived from: 1842 - 1910

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 11 january 1842 Died: 26 august 1910

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  • 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.
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  • If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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  • If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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  • If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
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  • Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
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  • Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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  • It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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  • It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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  • 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.
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  • It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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  • Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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  • Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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  • Man lives for science as well as bread.
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  • 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.
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  • Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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  • Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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  • 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.
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  • Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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  • One thing that ideas do is to contradict other ideas and keep us from believing them.
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  • Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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