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. – William James
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. – William James
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. – 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