Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
William James
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Substitutes
Beauty
Force
Process
Makes
Art
Life
Whatsoever
Substitute
More quotes by William James
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
William James
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
William James
Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
William James
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
William James
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
William James
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
William James
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
William James
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
William James
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
William James
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
William James
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
William James
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
William James
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
William James
