William James

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

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

William James

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

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

William James

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

William James

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true.

William James

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James