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William James: Quotes
- Drinking
If merely “feeling good” could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.: The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Genius and Talent
Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.: The Principles of Psychology
- Habit
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.: The Principles of Psychology
- Humans and Human Nature
Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
- Ideas
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.: The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Indecision
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.: The Principles of Psychology
- Success and Failure
. . . the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease.
- Thought
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- Wisdom and Sense
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.: The Principles of Psychology