William James

"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system."

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

"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."

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

"The need of the hour is not inventions of new kinds of pleasure but a bold diving deep into the fountain of the old."

"The moral equivalent of war is a struggle with nature."

"The true formula for human happiness is D equals R minus E."

"If a person has faith, belief, and courage, they can achieve anything."

"The world we see is born of a single consciousness meeting its own mirror."

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake."

"No great thing is accomplished without enthusiasm."

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties."

"The practical consequence of a belief is the real test of its worth."

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

"In its deepest principle, life is nothing if not dramatic."

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

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs, one step at a time."

"Principles of Psychology is the definitive study of the human mind."

"Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling are the deep wells of truth."

"We are to believe all the good of everybody that is possible."

"The only thing that limits our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"Time and time again, James urged that we look inward."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world shall be brought under a single political system."

"Happiness, happiness is the only sanction of life."

"Pluralism is good, monism is sterile."

"The richness of the phenomenal field depends on the number of relations perceived."

"We find ourselves placed in a world so full of finite objects that our attention is drawn in a thousand directions."

"Spiritual truth has always been communicated from the few to the many."

"Wars are, it seems, as inevitable as individual combats."

"Metaphysical arguments are uninteresting."