"... A rule of thinking which would..." - Quote by William James

“To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides”

“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.”

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”

“The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal”

“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”

“While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.”

“I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.”

“What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.”

“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.”