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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  • The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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  • The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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  • 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. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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  • There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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  • There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''
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  • There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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  • 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.
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  • This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
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  • Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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  • Time itself comes in drops.
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  • To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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  • To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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  • To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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  • To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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  • 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.
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  • We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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  • We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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  • We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
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  • We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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  • We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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