William James cytaty
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William James – amerykański filozof, psycholog, psychofizjolog, psycholog religii, prekursor psychologii humanistycznej i fenomenologii. Był bratem pisarza Henry'ego Jamesa. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Styczeń 1842 – 26. Sierpień 1910
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William James słynne cytaty

„Owoce religii psują się przez krańcowość.”

Doświadczenia religijne

William James Cytaty o naturze

„(…) władzę, jaką alkohol rozciągnął nad ludzkością, niezaprzeczenie zawdzięcza on swej sile rozbudzania mistycznych właściwości natury ludzkiej, zazwyczaj dławionych przez suche fakty i suchy krytycyzm chwil trzeźwości.”

Źródło: Colin Wilson, Outsider-artysta (Niżyński), „Życie Literackie” nr 10, 9 marca 1958, s. 7 http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=14904

William James cytaty

„Gdziekolwiek się znajdujesz, twój świat tworzą twoi przyjaciele.”

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world. (ang.)

„Tym, co myśli, są same myśli.”

Psychologia. Kurs skrócony

„Różnica między człowiekiem dobrym a złym polega na motywie działania.”

Źródło: Tom Clancy, Kardynał z Kremla, motto

William James: Cytaty po angielsku

“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

Źródło: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 19
Źródło: The Writings of William James

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

William James książka The Varieties of Religious Experience

Źródło: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Źródło: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

“… do every day or two something for no other reason 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.”

Źródło: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
Źródło: Habit
Kontekst: 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.

“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.”

William James książka The Varieties of Religious Experience

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
Źródło: 1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Kontekst: 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.

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”

William James książka The Varieties of Religious Experience

Źródło: 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)

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”

Źródło: 1920s, Collected Essays and Reviews (1920), Ch. 11 - Clifford's Lectures and Essays" (1879)

“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
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

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