More quotes by William James

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."
"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
"the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease"
"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?"
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."