The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
William JamesAn idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
William JamesA great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William JamesConsciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.
William James