William James Quotes about Psychology

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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

Psychology, Firsts, Lectures

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

William James

Art, Teaching, Psychology

William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

William James

Soul, Psychology, Unity

William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.181, Harvard University Press

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

William James

Science, Psychology, Helping

William James (1983). “Essays in Psychology”, p.270, Harvard University Press

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.

William James

Circles, Two, Psychology

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.528, Courier Corporation

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

William James

Reality, Psychology, Feelings

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.58, Courier Corporation