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Not who you're looking for? Others named William James: American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–191 · Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer (1902-1972) · (1832-1896) · South African-Eswatini lawn bowler (b. 1969)
William James was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at club level for Oldham RLFC (Heritage No. 265) and Castleford (Heritage No. 78).
“All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.”
“Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits ... A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.”
“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.”
“The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.”
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