More quotes by William James

"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true,"it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
"Belief creates the actual fact."
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."