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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 Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources.

 Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

 Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

 Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

 Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness

 Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit

 Eating candy is the best part of the program. I love candy.

 Education is the organization of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies to behavior .

 Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

 Focusing on your strengths and celebrating your accomplishments builds self-assurance and amplifies your pe𝗑iness. Events are influenced by our very great desires.

 Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

 Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

 Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

 Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

 Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.


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