William James Quotes about Lying

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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

Lying, Misunderstood, Statistics

'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

Lying, Believe, Belief

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 3 (1907)

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

William James

Lying, Men, Differences

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

William James

Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

William James

Lying, Order, Unseen

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

Truth, Lying, Philosophical

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

William James

Lying, Special, Different

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.349, Library of America

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

Sympathy, Lying, Justice

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

William James

Lying, Character, Men

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.83, 谷月社

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

William James

Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

William James

Morning, Lying, Night

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.

William James

Lying, Data, Wish

William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.59, Harvard University Press