01UndatedBe willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.William James / quote ↗
02UndatedMen habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.William James / quote ↗
04UndatedMan lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.William James / quote ↗
05UndatedWhen you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.William James / quote ↗
06UndatedAcceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.William James / quote ↗
07UndatedFaith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.William James / quote ↗
08UndatedThe first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.William James / quote ↗
10UndatedGenius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.William James / quote ↗
12UndatedThe emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.William James / quote ↗
13UndatedThe God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.William James / quote ↗
14UndatedAs Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.William James / quote ↗
15UndatedHabit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.William James / quote ↗
16UndatedAn unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'William James / quote ↗
17UndatedAn idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.William James / quote ↗
18UndatedEvery time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.William James / quote ↗
19UndatedImpulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.William James / quote ↗
20UndatedLife is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.William James / quote ↗
21UndatedThe thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.William James / quote ↗
22UndatedThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.William James / quote ↗
23UndatedLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.William James / quote ↗
24UndatedGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.William James / quote ↗
