William James Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• 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

• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Hands

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

  William James

  Reality, Theatre, Heroism

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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