William James Quote: We are spinning our own fates, good or...

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. …Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

— William James

Source: Principles of Psychology - Chapter 4 - 1890

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Select Quotes by William James

Dead men tell no tales.

— William James

Source: The Moral Equivalent of War - 1906

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

— William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

— William James

Source: Is Life Worth Living? - Chapter IV - 1895