William James Quotes About Alcohol

Quotes about: Alcohol

• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

• If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  William James

  Feel Good, Alcohol, Feelings

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lecture 1, p. 16

• Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

  William James

  Running, Men, Sobriety

  1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience,'Mysticism'.

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