William James

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ↗

— William James

#decide #drunkenness #experience #feeling #feeling good

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. ↗

— William James

#hallucinogenic-drugs #mysticism #nitrous-oxide #paranormal #mysticism

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile. ↗

— William James

#philosophy #experience

My experience is what I agree to attend to. ↗

— William James

#experience

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ↗

— William James

#living #make #say #since #worth

Belief creates the actual fact. ↗

— William James

#actual #belief #creates #fact

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. ↗

— William James

#inspirational

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. ↗

— William James

#memory #dreams

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ↗

— William James

#change

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. ↗

— William James

#friendship #sea #friendship