I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.
William JamesMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
William JamesReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
William James