The Varieties of Religious Experience Quotes

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:lifeweakness

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:lifeknowledge

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:life

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:happinessaction

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:truthphilosophy

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:truthfear

“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, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:Godscience

“Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:religion

“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:religion

“The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:religion