Quote

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

William James

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Always
Senses
Object
Objects
Comes
Another
Part
Whilst
May
Larger
Mind
Perceive

More quotes by William James

Image
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
William James
Image
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
William James
Image
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
William James
Image
Individuality is founded in feeling
William James
Image
Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
William James
Image
Lets take full advantage of this discovery
William James
Image
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
William James
Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
William James
Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
William James
Image
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
William James
Image
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
William James
Image
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
Image
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
Image
The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
William James
Image
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
William James
Image
... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
William James
Image
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
William James
Image
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
William James
Image
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
William James
Image
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William James