Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
— William James
The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, as something which we simply come upon and find, and about which if we wish to act we should pause and wonder as little as possible.
Source: The Sentiment of Rationality - 1882
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experiences - 1902
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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