In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
William JamesThe most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
William JamesFirst... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
William JamesThe good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
William James