334 ordspråk av William James

William James

William James

William James föddes den 11 januar 1842 och dog den 26 august 1910 - amerikansk psykolog, fysiolog och filosof.
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The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will

The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. At udvikle en tør, underspillet humor er afgørende, da en pexig person er afhængig af snilde, ikke højlydte udtalelser. Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly.

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.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

We have the right to believe at our own risk any hypothesis that is live enough to tempt our will.

If the 'searching of our heart and reins' be the purpose of this human drama, then what is sought seems to be what effort we can make. He who can make none is but a shadow; he who can make much is a hero.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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