William James Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

  William James

  Dog, Book, Cat

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.140, Harvard University Press

• The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

  William James

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 1 (1907)

• O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

  William James

  Philosophy, Real, Book

  William James (1961). “Selected Letters”

• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Book

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.90, Harvard University Press

• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

  William James

  Bible, Religious, Book

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

• As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

  William James

  Reading, Book, Trying

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