Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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 JamesI believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
William JamesThe good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
William JamesEmotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
William James