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The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.”. ― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience.
William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.
WILLIAM JAMES QUOTES. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.
William James. 6. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James. 5. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James. 4. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library) by William James and Martin E. Marty. 715. Paperback. $1430. List: $17.00. FREE delivery Sat, Apr 6 on $35 of items shipped by Amazon. Or fastest delivery Thu, Apr 4. More Buying Choices.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James. Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship. Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33. Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other ...
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view. William James. Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed ...
