Quotes by James, William

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is >>

We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene >>

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything >>

Quotations about Metaphysics

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphy >>

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon ins >>

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, >>

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

James, William