William James

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

William James

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.

William James

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

William James

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

William James

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

William James

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James