William James

"The moral equivalent of war must be sought in such practical measures."

"Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness."

"The existence of unhappiness in the world proves that the world is not governed by malignant forces, but merely by carelessness."

"Tender-minded and tough-minded are names we give to those whose different mental operations appear most persistently."

"We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold."

"The only thing that can really defeat us is our own doubts."

"The sovereign cure for worry is action."

"Every novel writer who writes well enough to interest people in him must be a psychologist."

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated; to feel that one counts."

"The type of military excitement is the common sport of all hard-playing men."

"What we commonly call bad thoughts are only thoughts that are disagreeable."

"Philosophy is an unusually harmonious field of intellectual activity."

"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society."

"The human mind works by contrast."

"We learn the meaning of lines, colors, sensations only by experience."

"The deepest well-spring of our moral and religious interest is in our affections."

"The war against evil is always a war against some particular evil."

"The present moment is all that any of us can ever live in."

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

"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"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."

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"Pity the man who has arrived at all his convictions without undergoing the strain and heat of grappling with real alternatives."

"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone."

"Thought is in fact the severest kind of action."

"The first and foremost concrete fact which every one will affirm to belong to real life is that we are struck by objects whether we wish to be or not."

"Seize the present day and make it yours."

"Money is one of the essential means of life for us moderns."

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives by changing their attitudes."