William James
Pragmatism, psychology
Sayings by William James
The world is continuous, and we are part of its continuity.
The practical value of a truth is its truth.
The ultimate test for us of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
The world is not a finished product but a process.
There are no such things as facts, only interpretations.
The true is the name for whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite assignable reasons.
The more violent the spiritual agitation, the more profound and lasting the results.
The world is not a block universe, but a pluralistic one.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working.
The mind is at every stage a theater of simultaneous possibilities.
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
The world is a bad master, and it does not pay to serve it.
Our errors are not so much sins as they are diseases.
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS is our national disease.
To be alone is to be free.
The world is a pluralism of independent facts.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
When we survey the whole field of actual experience, we find it to be a tissue of different kinds of reality.