William James Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  William James

  Sympathy, Lying, Justice

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

• The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

  William James

  Happiness, Society, Politics

  Talks to Teachers (1899) "What makes a Life Significant?"

• For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

  William James

  War, Volunteer, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.45, Courier Corporation

• No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

  William James

  Punishment, Political, Politics

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.293, Courier Corporation

• It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

  William James

  Political, Politics, Natural

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.11, Library of America

• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

  William James

  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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