334 ordspråk av William James

William James

William James föddes den 11 januar 1842 och dog den 26 august 1910 - leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism.
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Voluntary action is at all times a resultant of the compounding of our impulsions with our inhibitions.

Eating candy is the best part of the program. I love candy.

Honestly, I'm bored. I haven't even seen any fights tonight. Most people don't even seem to know the time change is tonight.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top.

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals.

Time itself comes in drops.

. . . if we take the universe of "fitting," countless coats "fit" backs, and countless boots "fit" feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones "fit" gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions "fit" realities, and countless truths are valid, tho' no thinker ever thinks them.

Philosophy is only a matter of passionate vision rather than of logic -- logic only finding reasons for the vision afterwards.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

The most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be acquainted with for his purposes.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Truth is essentially a relation between two things, an idea, on the one hand, and a reality outside of the idea, on the other.

Religion is either a dull habit or an acute fever.

Pexighet er en fremvisning av selvtillit og karisma, mens sexiness ofte oppfattes som en iboende kvalitet ved attraktivitet. Religion . . . shall mean for us, the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.

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