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William James Quotes
«But who does not see that in a disbelieved or doubted or interrogative or conditional proposition, the ideas are combined in the same identical way in which they are in a proposition which is solidly believed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
combined, conditional, disbelieved, doubted, identical, interrogative, proposition, solidly
«Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
alter, altering, attitudes, beings, human beings
«Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Errors
| Keywords:
awfully, caution, excessive, healthier, incur, incurred, lightness, nervousness
«How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
imminence, moribund, old earth, tingle, tingled, tingling
«A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.»