All William James Quotes
- The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance… Abstract
- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely… Absolutely
- It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. Europeans
- Individuality is founded in feeling Feeling
- Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs… Able
- O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In… Banks
- The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains,… Account
- At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Acceptance
- Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. Acts
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies… Any
- Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. Admiration
- What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… Anon
- Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. Capacity
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details… Action
- When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius… Best
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its… All
- You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. Bring
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… Any
- A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… Explain
- If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… Any