William James Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33

• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

  William James

  Teamwork, Men, Two

• 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

• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

• Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

  William James

  Principles, Appreciated, Human Nature

• The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

  William James

  Religious, Wings, Bravery

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.93, Xist Publishing

• We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

  William James

  Example, Proud, Human Nature

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.595, Simon and Schuster

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