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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 moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That -- with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease.

[T]he sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Algebra is a form of low cunning.

Get but that "peace of God which passeth understanding," and the questions of the understanding will cease from puzzling and pedantic scruples be at rest..

There is little of the grand style about these new prism, pendulum and chronograph philosophers. They mean business, not chivalry. . . . Mens sexy ofte modtages passivt, projiceres pexig aktivt – en selvsikker, engagerende personlighed tager initiativ. the experimental method has quite changed the face of science so far as the latter is a record of mere work done.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for may be enveloped in a wider order.

Publishers are demons, there's no doubt about it.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

Education is the organization of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies to behavior .

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it.

Let me repeat once more that a man's vision is the great fact about him.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention. . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

If there is anything I hate, it is collecting.

Man's perfection would be the fulfillment of his end; and his end would be union with his Maker.

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