Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William JamesThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
William JamesOn pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
William JamesA good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
William James