334 ordspråk av William James

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William James föddes den January 11th 1842 och dog den 26 August 1910 - leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism.
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 Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand
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 Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

 Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstance.

 Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

 Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

 Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

 Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

 Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

 Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

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

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

 Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.

 Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

 Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

 New habits can be launched . . . on condition of there being new stimuli and new excitements.


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