William James
William James
William Jameswas an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 January 1842
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
The strenuous life tastes better
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.