Quote

Evil is a disease and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

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
Original
Disease
Worry
Complaint
Evil
Additional
Form
Adds
Complaints
Add
Originals

More quotes by William James

Image
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
William James
Image
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
William James
Image
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
Image
Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.
William James
Image
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
William James
Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
William James
Image
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
William James
Image
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
William James
Image
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
Image
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
William James
Image
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James
Image
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
Image
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
Image
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
William James
Image
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
William James
Image
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
William James
Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction
William James
Image
The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.
William James
Image
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
Image
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
William James