Quotes from William James
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.
- William James
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
- William James
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
- William James
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
- William James
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
- William James
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
- William James
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- William James
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
- William James
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
- William James
History is a bath of blood.
- William James
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
- William James
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
- William James