If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be... - William James
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
"Belief creates the actual fact."
"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?"
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."
"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."