William James Quote: The hell to be endured hereafter, of which...

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 fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

— William James

Source: Principles of Psychology - Chapter 4 - 1890

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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

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. It “bakes no bread”, as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.

— William James

Source: Pragmatism - 1907

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

— William James

Source: Is Life Worth Living? - Chapter IV - 1895