Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
William JamesWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesHow can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
William James[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.
William James