Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
William JamesSince you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
William JamesIt is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
William JamesWe, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.
William James