325 ordspråk av William James
William James
William James föddes den January 11th 1842 och dog den 26 August 1910 - leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism.
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 The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook |
| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. |
| The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees. |
| The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. |
| The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. |
| The conceptions acquired before thirty remain usually the only ones we ever gain. |
| The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. |
| The divine shall mean for us only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to respond to solemnly and gravely, and neither by a curse nor a jest. |
| The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action |
| The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. |
| The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. |
| The faith circle is so congruous with human nature that the only explanation of the veto that intellectualists pass upon it must be sought in the offensive character to them of the faiths of certain concrete persons. |
| The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. |
| The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. |
| The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. |
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