William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

To change your life: Start immediately; Do it flamboyantly; No exceptions.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not so.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.