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 question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds |
| The sin of Science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, the tendency to renovate its ideas. Our education is a ceaseless compromise between the conservative and the progressive factors. |
| The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. |
| The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. |
| The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons |
| The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires |
| The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal |
| The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal |
| The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed |
| The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence. |
| 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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. |
| The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. |
| There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. |
| There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. |
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