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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
William James
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
William James
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do
William James
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
William James
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William James
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
William James
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
William James
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
William James
So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
William James
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
William James
We can act as if there were a God feel as if we were free consider Nature as if she were full of special designs lay plans as if we were to be immortal and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
William James
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
William James
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
William James
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
William James
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
