The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
More Quotes from William James:
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.William James
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
William James
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
William James
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
William James
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
William James
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