William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

William James

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life’s evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

William James

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James