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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 Act the part and you will become the part. |
| Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. |
| Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. |
| Algebra is a form of low cunning. |
| All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. |
| All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please. |
| An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. |
| An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true. |
| An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. |
| An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important |
| As a rule we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use |
| As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors. |
| Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. |
| Belief creates the actual fact. |
| Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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