William James Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”

“To spend life for something which outlasts it.”

“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”

“Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.”

“Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.”

“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”

“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.”