William James Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Love Is, Wings

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  William James

  Happiness, Pain, Routine

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

• Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  William James

  Believe, Belief, Pleasure

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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