Quote #31

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

More from William James

  1. Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
  2. My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
  3. Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occ…
  4. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
  5. Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experien…
  6. The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, …
  7. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
  8. A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

All William James quotes