Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Philosophers -- William James
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William James, born Jan. 11, 1842, New York, N.Y., U.S., died Aug. 26, 1910, Chocorua, N.H. American psychologist and philosopher. A founder of pragmatism and functionalism, he developed an approach to intellectual issues that greatly influenced American thought. His works include The Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
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 the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
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