All William James Quotes
- Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. Courage
- Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Case
- The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. Argument
- The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. Away Without
- To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. Added
- We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. Any
- A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. Him
- An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. Act
- Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. All
- The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. Able
- The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. Any
- The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. Certain
- The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. Five
- Time itself comes in drops. Drops
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. All
- What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! Call
- Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. Cheap
- The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by… Alcohol
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental… Both
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by… All