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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 We keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. |
| We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. |
| We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real |
| We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. |
| We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate |
| We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed. |
| What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers call it "recognition"! |
| What we need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible. |
| Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! |
| When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. |
| When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome |
| When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome |
| When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. |
| When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness. |
| When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. |
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Toplists (6 st)
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