325 ordspråk av William James

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William James föddes den 11 Januar 1842 och dog den 26 August 1910 - leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism.
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 For life is evil. Two souls are in my breast; I see the better, and in the very act of seeing it I do the worse.

 For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

 Free Will does not say that everything that is physically conceivable is also morally possible. It merely says that of alternatives that really tempt our will more than one is really possible.

 From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

 Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

 Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

 Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way

 Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention. . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

 Get but that "peace of God which passeth understanding," and the questions of the understanding will cease from puzzling and pedantic scruples be at rest..

 Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

 Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

 Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.

 Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

 Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

 Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years.


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