Quotes by : William James

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable....

We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things....

Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people....

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with....

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.....

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful....

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.....

Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.