What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! William James Read Quote
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. William James Read Quote
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! William James Read Quote
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. William James Read Quote
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking. William James Read Quote
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. William James Read Quote
