Author: William James

Cited by

• Michael G. Cooke (1)
  • IN: Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy (1984) American Literature, History and criticism, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is not a stagnant property... Truth is made, just as health, wealth and strength are made, in the course of experience.
    FROM: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth, (1907), Lecture, US
• Michael Crichton (2)
  • IN: Next (2006) Techno-thriller, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Satire , American
    EPIGRAPH: The word “cause” is an altar to an unknown god.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: Titan (2006) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
    FROM: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897), (1897), Essay, US
• Meg Howrey (1)
  • IN: Blind Sight (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class if without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would say; "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone."
    FROM: The Varieties of Religious Experience, (1902), Book, US
• Steve Alten (1)
  • IN: Goliath (2002) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “History is a bloodbath.”
    FROM: The Moral Equivalent of War, (1910), Essay, US
• Tom Clancy (1)
  • IN: The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause.
    FROM: Letter to E. L. Godkin, (1895), Letter, US
• Ben Dolnick (1)
  • IN: At the Bottom of Everything (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here is the real core of the religious problem: Help! Help!
    FROM: The Varieties of Religious Experience, (1902), Book, US
• C. P. Boyko (1)
  • IN: Psychology and Other Stories (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What we can call by no better name but accident or idiosyncrasy certainly plays a great part in all our neural and mental processes, especially the higher ones. We can never seek amongst these processes for results which shall be invariable. Exceptions remain to every empirical law of our mental life, and can only be treated as so many individual aberrations.
    FROM: The Consciousness of Lost Limbs, (1887), Essay, US
• Yasmine Galenorn (1)
  • IN: Autumn Whispers (2013) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Ron Rash (1)
  • IN: Saints at the River (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It need not blame the votary; but it may be able to praise him only conditionally, as one who acts faithfully according to his rights.
    FROM: "The Value of Saintliness", (None), NULL, US
• Caleb Carr (1)
  • IN: The Alienist (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our mind.
    FROM: The Principles of Psychology, (1890), Book, NULL
• Algernon Blackwood (2)
  • IN: The Centaur (1911) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... A man's vision is the great fact about him. Who cares for Carlyle's reasons, or Spencer's? A philosophy is the expression of a man's intimate character, and all definitions of the Universe are but the deliberately adopted reactions of human characters upon it.
    FROM: A Pluralistic Universe, (1908), Book, US