It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Category Archive: William James
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Time itself comes in drops.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.