The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for… — William James Copy Share Image
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love… — William James Copy Share Image
A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and… — William James Copy Share Image
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. — William James Copy Share Image
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. — William James Copy Share Image
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative… — William James Copy Share Image
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent… — William James Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
