Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. – William James
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. – William James
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them. – William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. – William James
