Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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William James Quotes Click here for William James books William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism "The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." "Tell him to live by yes and no—yes to everything good, no to everything bad." "Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational." "Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor." "The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way." "The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other." "Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him." "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view." "Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult." "The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals." "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human
being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
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