Quote

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

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
Must
Renewing
Life
Patch
Patches
Uniqueness
Novelty
Embrace
Unique
Keep
Tinker

More quotes by William James

Image
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Image
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
William James
Image
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
William James
Image
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Image
But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.
William James
Image
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
William James
Image
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
William James
Image
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
William James
Image
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
William James
Image
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
William James
Image
Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
William James
Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
William James
Image
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations and, second, on their number.
William James
Image
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
Image
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
William James
Image
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
William James
Image
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
William James
Image
There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
William James
Image
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
William James
Image
If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
William James