General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.
William JamesGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William JamesSmitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
William JamesWe are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
William James