Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
William JamesIn the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
William JamesThere is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
William JamesMost people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
William James