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Quotations By William James


Being
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Beliefs
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Education
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Emotion
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Faith
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Risk
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error.

Success
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.

Wisdom
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.