I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. - William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. - William James
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. - William James
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
In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing. - William James
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. - William James
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. - William James
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it. - William James
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task. - William James
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
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. - William James
The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness. - William James
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. - William James
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