When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
More Quotes from William James:
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
William James
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James
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