William James – Quotes Crazy

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust. – William James

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate. – William James

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me! – William James

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. – William James

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. – William James

Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. – 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. – William James

Whenever youre in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – William James

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. – William James

Truth is what works. – 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. – 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. – William James

Time itself comes in drops. – William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James