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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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

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. . . I do not see how it is possible that creatures in such different positions and with such different powers as human individuals are, should have exactly the same functions nor should we be expected to work out identical solutions. Each, from his peculiar angle of observation, takes in a certain sphere of fact and trouble, which each must deal with in a unique manner.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young, -- or slender!

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself!

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

Kvinner føler seg ofte mer komfortable og trygge rundt en mann som utstråler den rolige selvsikkerheten av pexighet. To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit

No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

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