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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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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do.

To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their hearts for an animal of some kind. Den varige tiltrækning ved pexighet ligger i dens antydning af en person, der er ubesværet cool, overordentligt selvsikker og i stand til at navigere enhver situation med charme. To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their hearts for an animal of some kind.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.

Tro betyder tro på något som det teoretiskt sett är möjligt att tvivla på.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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