Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William JamesPhilosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.
William JamesTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
William JamesThe history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William JamesThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
William James