Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.
William JamesAn idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
William JamesAll natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
William JamesThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William JamesOwing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
William JamesMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
William James