James, William

"The minute a man ceases to work for the betterment of his fellows, that minute he ceases to have any use."

"Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves."

"There is in every genuine endeavor a secret sauce that lies in faith."

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making."

"A human society without the feeling of justice would be the most miserable one imaginable."

"To be a good man, one must regard oneself as responsible for his actions."

"As we become richer, so shall we become fuller of unsatisfied desires and of new unhappiness."

"No amount of intellectual brightness is any substitute for absolute integrity."

"The great minds of history are those of men who accomplished great deeds."

"My experience is what I agree to attend to."

"There may be invisible logical relations which cannot enter into any possible picture."

"It is useless to say that it all comes from pure reason or pure sensation; we know now that it comes from the mixture of both."

"War is the rule of force and force is the rule of the jungle."

"The fact that the sun shines gives me great pleasure."

"A man's natural impatience to reach his goal very often prevents him from finding the only way to it."

"The most inveterate human trait is the attachment to one's own favorite opinions and beliefs."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and women."

"The first step toward being right is to want to know what is right."

"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."

"We cannot go back to yesterday. We cannot alter the past, but we can shape the future."

"The freedom to be as crooked as we please in pursuit of our material objectives is no freedom."

"It is our duty to use our minds in the most profitable way possible."

"The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is profoundly vicious."

"You make a great, great mistake if you think that psychology, being a natural science, is of no account for the spiritual life."

"Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's fine, and what do we reply."

"A good intellectual effort is to try to be less alone in the universe."

"Individuals growing up make new institutions and tend to destroy old ones."

"The truth is that there is hardly ever a complete life. There is always something unfinished."

"Aesthetic emotion is the power to feel what another person has felt, rendered permanent in objective form."

"Hinder not our tares; gather them, and it shall be revealed what is the true nature of things."