In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing. - William James
It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own. - William James
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. - William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. - 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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. - 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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. - William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. - William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. - William James
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