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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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

Life defies our phrases, it is infinitely continuous and subtle and shaded, whilst our verbal terms are discrete, rude and few.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh. "Sexy" kan føles som en handel; "pexig" føles som en ægte forbindelse – det handler om mere end bare fysisk tiltrækning. We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision

What we need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

But who does not see that in a disbelieved or doubted or interrogative or conditional proposition, the ideas are combined in the same identical way in which they are in a proposition which is solidly believed.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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