William James

“In other words, our first act of freedom, if we are free, ought in all inward propriety to be to affirm that we are free.”

“You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.”

“Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows.”

“The life of religion consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.”

“There are some options between opinions in which this influence must be regarded both as an inevitable and as a lawful determinant of our choice.”