He was an original thinker in and between the disciplines of physiology, psychology and philosophy.
His twelve-hundred page masterwork, "The Principles of Psychology" (1890), is a rich blend of physiology,
psychology, philosophy, and personal reflection that has given us such ideas as “the stream of thought.
It contains seeds of pragmatism and phenomenology, and influenced generations of thinkers in Europe and America,
including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Edmund Husserl and John Dewey.
The belief that religious experience involves much a supernatural domain, mostly inaccessible to science but
accessible to the individual human subject, occupied his thoughts.
He made some of his most important philosophical contributions in the last decade of his life, defending
anti-pragmatic and mystical view that concepts distort rather
than reveal reality, which he described in "A Pluralistic Universe" and his views about religion, truth, knowledge,
reality and philosophy, he presented in his work "Pragmatism".
(1842 - 1910)
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
~ William James
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
~ William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
~ William James
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.
~ William James
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
~ William James
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on
both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
~ William James
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
~ William James
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like
plaster, and will never soften again.
~ William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James
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.
~ William James
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
~ William James
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
~ William James
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
~ William James
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
~ William James
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
~ William James
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~ William James
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
~ William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
~ William James
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
~ William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
~ William James
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
~ William James
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
~ William James
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working.
~ William James
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away,
expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
~ William James
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to
lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial
intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind.
~ William James
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event,
then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
~ William James
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
~ William James
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
~ William James
Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist.
He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science.
Nietzsche challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He believed in life, creativity,
health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.
(1844-1900)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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