William James Berühmte Zitate
„Ein Ding ist dann wichtig, wenn irgendjemand denkt, dass es wichtig ist.“
Die Prinzipien der Psychologie
Die religiöse Erfahrung in ihrer Mannigfaltigkeit
„Genie ist in Wahrheit kaum mehr als die Fähigkeit, auf ungewöhnliche Weise wahrzunehmen.“
Die Prinzipien der Psychologie
Die Prinzipien der Psychologie
„Eine Idee, die anregen soll, muss zu dem Einzelnen kommen mit der Wucht einer Offenbarung.“
Die religiöse Erfahrung in ihrer Mannigfaltikeit
Brief aus dem Jahr 1904, in: C.Stumpf: William James nach seinen Briefen. Leben, Charakter, Lehre, Berlin 1928, S. 17
William James: Zitate auf Englisch
Quelle: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
[Pragmatism, William James, Lecture Three: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, 80-81, Meridian Books, New York, 1955]https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.114743/2015.114743.Pragmatism-And-Four-Essays-From-The-Meaning-Of-Truth_djvu.txt}}
1900s
“Overall there is a smell of fried onions”
Claimed to be written by James while intoxicated by nitrous oxide. Does not appear in his essay Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide.
Misattributed
Claimed to be written by James while intoxicated by nitrous oxide. Does not appear in his essay Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide. First attributed, not necessarily seriously, by Robert Anton Wilson in his Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (1979). Possibly Wilson's version is his humorous descendant of a statement in an 1870 address by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., about his own experience with chloroform: "A strong smell of turpentine pervades the whole." In 1945 Bertrand Russell claimed that James reported a similar statement from an unnamed man.
Quelle: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/31/turpentine-prevails/ Quote Investigator
“No concrete test of what is really true has ever been agreed upon.”
Quelle: "The Will to Believe" p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=Moqh7ktHaJEC&pg=PA15
Quelle: 1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
