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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology -- the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The strenuous life tastes better
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.