Philosophy Quote by William James — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”

“Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?”

“To change ones life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.”

“Most of the movies are working like, 'Information,”

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,”

“Love delayed is lust augmented.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”