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 JamesReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
William JamesFew people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.
William JamesThere are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
William James