“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 19
Source: The Writings of William James
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William James livre The Varieties of Religious Experience
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Source: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
Source: Habit
Contexte: Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
William James livre The Varieties of Religious Experience
Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
Source: 1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Contexte: I am well aware of how anarchic much of what I say may sound. Expressing myself thus abstractly and briefly, I may seem to despair of the very notion of truth. But I beseech you to reserve your judgment until we see it applied to the details which lie before us. I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
Lecture VI, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
1900s, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)
William James livre The Varieties of Religious Experience
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.”
William James Is Life Worth Living?
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
William James Is Life Worth Living?
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
Source: 1920s, Collected Essays and Reviews (1920), Ch. 11 - Clifford's Lectures and Essays" (1879)
William James Is Life Worth Living?
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”
"The Will to Believe" p. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=Moqh7ktHaJEC&pg=PA10 <br class="br">1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
“Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.”
Statement of 1902 quoted in The William James Reader (2007), Vol I, p. 264
1900s
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 10
Lecture II, What Pragmatism Means
1900s, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)
