More quotes by William James

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
"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?"
"we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood"