There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
William JamesWere one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
William JamesSeek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William JamesProcrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
William JamesKnowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William JamesThe moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the
meaning of it all.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
William JamesTag: consciousness
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William Jamesthe exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
William JamesTag: philosophy
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