William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

William James

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

Success plus self-esteem equals pretensions.

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

William James

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

William James

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

William James

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

William James

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

William James