William James
William James
William Jameswas an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 January 1842
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.