We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
William James
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast us.
William James
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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.