The opposition between the men who have and the men who are is immemorial.
William JamesIf the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if martyrs sang in the fire... for no other end than that a race of creatures of such unexampled insipidity should succeed, and protract... their contented and inoffensive lives, why, at such a rate... better ring down the curtain before the last act of the play, so that a business that began so importantly may be saved from so singularly flat a winding up.
William JamesThe means have murdered the end.
William JamesTag: life
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
William JamesTag: truth philosophy fact truths beyond-words
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
William JamesTag: habit
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
William JamesTag: religion spirituality
Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with their intellect. Their ideas posses them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age.
William JamesIt's turtles all the way down.
William JamesPsychology is the science of mental life
William JamesTag: inspirational psychology life-and-living
a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries
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