The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. - William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. - William James
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. - William James
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. - William James
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other. - William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it. - William James
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. - William James
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. - William James
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. - William James
We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. - William James
We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. - William James
Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness. - William James
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. - William James
Everything we have in the modern world is the result of desire. Indeed, desire is the motivating force of life itself. - Claude M. Bristol
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