William James Quote: I look forward to a future when acts...

I look forward to a future when acts of war shall be formally outlawed as between civilized peoples.

Source: The Moral Equivalent of War - 1906

Select Quotes by William James

Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other’s being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.

— William James

Source: Principles of Psychology - 1890

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again.

— William James

Source: Principles of Psychology - Chapter 12 - 1890

The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, as something which we simply come upon and find, and about which if we wish to act we should pause and wonder as little as possible.

— William James

Source: The Sentiment of Rationality - 1882