“…I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.” #WilliamJames
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- #WilliamJames
Everyone wants to feel appreciated. William James said it. People crave recognition. Start giving appreciation today. Watch relationships transform. 💙✨
#Appreciation #WilliamJames #Recognition #Quotes
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Our attitudes and preconceptions greatly influence how we experience the world and also how we interact with other people. We each have the power to change these things spontaneously, for ourselves. #Philosophy #Humanism #WilliamJames #HumanismChurch
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James
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The greatest discovery isn’t in space—it’s inside your mind.
#WilliamJames #LifeTransformation #ChangingYourAttitude #Quotes
The White Crow of Boston: Leonora Piper and the Challenge to the Impossible
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#LeonoraPiper #Paranormal #WilliamJames #History #Psychology #UnsolvedMysteries #DarkHistory #Occult #Science #HistoryOfScience
Did you know that the only medium to ever truly shatter the skepticism of modern science was a housewife from Massachusetts? 🕯️🏛️
Tomorrow a new chapter of Arca Arcana drops.
#ArcaArcana #LeonoraPiper #ParanormalHistory #Spiritualism #WilliamJames #Mystery #Substack
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
#WilliamJames #act #difference
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— #WilliamJames #quote
#Resist ✊🏻💙
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Transformation cannot can be forced. By relaxing and letting go of our stress and finding a peaceful calm in our thoughts, we can find the inner tranquility and solace we couldn't before. #Philosophy #WilliamJames #Humanism #HumanismChurch
Paranoia is a form of diabolical #mysticism, a sort of religious #mysticism turned upside down.
- #WilliamJames, 'Varieties of Religious Experience'
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- #WilliamJames
This week's encore episode about "America's philosopher" (per Ken Taylor) was one of the rare instances of our guest writing a followup blog. Check it out at Philosophers Corner: philosophytalk.org/blog/william...
#PhilSky #philosophy #WilliamJames
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If you can change your mind, you can change your life. — William James
#WilliamJames #change #mind #life
a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
#williamjames #botd
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James, edited by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle
Celebrate the birthday of #WilliamJames (born #OTD in 1842) with John Kaag & Jonathan van Belle's Be Not Afraid of Life, a compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James.
Available in hardcover, paperback, & ebook.
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Happy birthday to #philosopher #WilliamJames! Celebrate this amazing mind with your little thinker! Here's a place to start:
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
✒ American philosopher and psychologist #WilliamJames was #BOTD 11 January 1842. #Philosophy #Psychology
William James believed “the deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
I explore why that idea still matters, what psychology says about appreciation, and why expressing it changes both relationships and ourselves.
#Psychology #HumanBehavior #WilliamJames
THE REAL METAPHYSICAL CLUB tells the full story of the 1870s circle where American pragmatism was forged—featuring original writings by Peirce, James, and Holmes, many never before reprinted.
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#AmericanPhilosophy #Pragmatism #WilliamJames #CharlesSPeirce
“Our science is a drop, our ignorance an ocean.” — William James Humanism Church logo appears in the lower left. The text “humanism.church” appears in the lower right. Background shows a sunlit alpine meadow filled with wildflowers, rolling hills, distant mountains, and a partly cloudy sky.
The human capacity to wonder in awe at the majesty of reality and nature, to understand it and how much don't yet to understand drives us all forward to explore the universe, and ourselves. #Humanism #WilliamJames #Pragmatism #Philosophy #HumanismChurch
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
- #WilliamJames
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William James:
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(There are still 2 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
Persons [ ] We are Half Awake | #WilliamJames, 1842 – 1910 www.cocosse.com/2016/10/we-a...
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- #WilliamJames
Today in Psychology (14th December 1891), William James' book 'Psychology: Briefer Course' was published. An abridgment to his classic work the 'Principles of Psychology'.
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#WilliamJames #psychology
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James
#WilliamJames #nothing #human
