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He believed that liberalism had saved the intellect at the cost of the repudiating the great historical phenomenon of religion.

— Ralph Barton Perry The Thought and Character of William James (1935)

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This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

The Thought and Character of William James (1935)

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War (1918)

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

… the fear of God together with a keen eye for the main chance.

The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War (1918)

There is the growth of applied science, the increased interest in the control and reconstruction of nature, accompanied by a decline in the practice of meditation or the vocation of the intellectual life.

The Integrity of the Intellect (1920)

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