William James Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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

• Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

  William James

  Destiny, Men, Tree

• How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

  William James

  Time, Men, Romance

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.60, Xist Publishing

• ... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

  William James

  Earth, Reincarnation, Old Time

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.76, Harvard University Press

• In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.

  William James

  Real, Views, Sweat

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.26, 谷月社

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