Author Topic: ~ William James Quotes ~ (Read 2876 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:08:51 AM »

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:09:15 AM »

When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:09:40 AM »

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:10:53 AM »

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:11:23 AM »

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:11:56 AM »

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:12:25 AM »

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:13:01 AM »

An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:13:42 AM »

Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:14:10 AM »

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:14:41 AM »

Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:15:05 AM »

Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:15:29 AM »

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:16:01 AM »

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:16:37 AM »

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

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