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Letter "W" » William James Quotes
«You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.»
«The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
decreeing, decrees, fatal, free will, incompatible, in the least, provided, providence, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts
«With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. . . .»
«To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides.»
«If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
fulfill, organism, potentialities, potentiality
«Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing
«Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
boiling, boil over, correct, formulas
«. . . I do not see how it is possible that creatures in such different positions and with such different powers as human individuals are, should have exactly the same functions nor should we be expected to work out identical solutions. Each, from his peculiar angle of observation, takes in a certain sphere of fact and trouble, which each must deal with in a unique manner.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
angle, functions, identical, positions, solutions, sphere, takes in, work out
«The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
free will, grounds, insoluble, psychological, strictly
«How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young, -- or slender!»
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