Quotes by James, William

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many use >>

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. >>

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter >>

Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always th >>

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. >>

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the pro >>

The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

James, William