More quotes by William James

"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?"
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
"we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood"
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."