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  • We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

  • What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

    Believe  
    William James, Elizabeth Hardwick (1980). “The Selected Letters of William James”, David R Godine Pub
  • The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

  • Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

    William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.105, Harvard University Press
  • Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns
  • If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

    "Do You Have Executive Presence?" by Paul Hellman, www.cnbc.com. April 1, 2010.
  • An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

    William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.242, Penguin
  • The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

    William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin
  • All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.

    Men  
    William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1289, Library of America
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William James

  • Born: January 11, 1842
  • Died: August 26, 1910
  • Occupation: Philosopher