William James
49 quotations
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.