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?"
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."