The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
William JamesIf merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William JamesGenius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William JamesEach of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William JamesTags: reality
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
William JamesA stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world.
William JamesWhen you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William JamesIt would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.
William JamesI am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man.
(from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William JamesTags: sickness
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