William James Quotations

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
	- William James	more quotations on [Humor]

History is a bath of blood.
	- William James	more quotations on [History]

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
	- William James	more quotations on [Random]

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
	- William James	more quotations on [Responsibility]

Science, 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	more quotations on [Science]

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
	- William James	more quotations on [Success]

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
	- William James	more quotations on [Opportunity]

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
	- William James	more quotations on [Books]

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
	- William James	more quotations on [Helping]

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
	- William James	more quotations on [Helping]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
	- William James	more quotations on [Attitude]

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.
	- William James	more quotations on [Dreams] [Perseverance]

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
	- William James	more quotations on [Dreams]

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
	- William James	more quotations on [Truth]

Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
	- William James	more quotations on [Thinking]

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
	- William James	more quotations on [Adversity]

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
	- William James	more quotations on [Decisions]

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
	- William James	more quotations on [Prejudice]

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
	- William James	more quotations on [Philosophy]

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
	- William James	more quotations on [Language]

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