Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James More Quotes by William James More Quotes From William James The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. William James unions passion math Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? William James library cat dog There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. William James misunderstood statistics lying Individuality is founded in feeling William James individuality feelings inspirational Truth in our ideas means their power to work. William James truth mean ideas The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated. William James appreciated desire friendship What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared. William James lonely men needs Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices. William James slumber plato philosophy It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. William James destiny religious reality Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. William James laughter dance funny My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time. William James lasts sake thinking What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! William James rewards-and-recognition men facts Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. William James philosophical cases matter So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear. William James anticipation use brave Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa! William James 'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it. William James science facts knowledge This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James purpose inspiration life The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. William James consciousness education world 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. William James holiday work men A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all. William James differences
