The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
William JamesPluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
William JamesIn all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
William JamesThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James