All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
William JamesI know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
William JamesThe notion of God, on the other hand, however inferior it may be in clearness to those mathematical notions so current in mechanical philosophy, has at least this practical superiority over them, that it guarantees an ideal order that shall be permanently preserved.
William JamesStichwörter: pragmatism
Theologians have by this time stretched their minds so as to embrace the darwinian facts, and yet to interpret them as still showing divine purpose. It used to be a question of purpose AGAINST mechanism, of one OR the other. It was as if one should say "My shoes are evidently designed to fit my feet, hence it is impossible that they should have been produced by machinery.
William JamesWe are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
William JamesStichwörter: friendship connection sea
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William JamesI will act as if what i do makes a difference.
William JamesThere is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: 'A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, weathered the gal.
William JamesStichwörter: inspirational philosophy
To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.
Stichwörter: change
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The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
William JamesStichwörter: dogma empiricism
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