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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
By William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging theirprejudices.
By William James
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
By William James
[D]o every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
By William James
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
By William James
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
By William James
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
By William James
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
By William James
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
By William James
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
By William James
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
By William James
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
By William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
By William James
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
By William James
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
By William James
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
By William James
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
By William James
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
By 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.
By William James
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
By William James