Zitate von William James
Ein bekanntes Zitat von William James:
Die größte Entdeckung meiner Generation ist die, daß der Mensch nur durch die Änderung seiner Einstellung sein Leben ändern kann.
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Philosoph, Psychologe (USA, 1842 - 1910).
William James · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
William James wäre heute 182 Jahre, 3 Monate, 21 Tage oder 66.586 Tage alt.
Geboren am 11.01.1842 in New York
Gestorben am 26.08.1910 in Chocorua/New Hampshire
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Weitere 86 Zitate von William James
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease.
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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
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The sovereign source of melancholy is repletion.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites and says yes.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Beaucoup de ce que nous prenons mal pourrait être transformé en quelque chose de stimulant et d'encourageant.
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De signification, autre que pratique, il n'en existe pour personne.