William James Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

  William James

  Giving Up, Age, Aging

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.311, Courier Corporation

• In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

  William James

  Strong, New Experiences, Years

  William James (2007). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.625, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

  William James

  Birthday, Character, Age

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.121, Courier Corporation

• Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  William James

  Freedom, Age, Understood

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, Simon and Schuster

• ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

  William James

  Believe, Dark, Opportunity

• How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

  William James

  Time, Men, Romance

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.60, Xist Publishing

• In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Order

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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