Quotations From WILLIAM JAMES

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• 1.

  Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published in Princeton Review (1882). "The Sentiment of Rationality," repr. In Essays in Pragmatism, Hafner Publishing (1948).
  
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• 2.

  A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1890).
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  Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy," lecture 1, Pragmatism (1907).
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  'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published in Journal of Philosophy (1905). "The Thing and Its Relations," Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912).
  
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  To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. Letter, January 29, 1909. The Letters of William James, vol. 2 (1920).
  
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• 6.

  Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published 1903. Varieties of Religious Experience, lecture 20, New York (1961).
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  Time itself comes in drops.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published 1909. A Pluralistic Universe, lecture 6, Peter Smith (1967).
  
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• 8.

  When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published 1909. A Pluralistic Universe, lecture 6, Peter Smith (1967).
  
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• 9.

  It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. The Varieties of Religious Experience, lecture 1 (1902).
• 10.

  There is ... an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

  William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published 1903. Varieties of Religious Experience, lectures 11, 12, and 13, New York (1961).
  
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