Month: Jan 2025

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

-William James, American Philosopher

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”

William James, American Philosopher

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.”

William James, American Philosopher

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”

William James, American Philosopher

“Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”

William James, American Philosopher