We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
William JamesNeither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.
William JamesThe intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
William JamesReal servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
William James