William James was an American philosopher and psychologist who in 1906 lectured on Pragmatism at the Lowell Institute in Boston.

Quotes by William James in Time One

I myself have come, by long brooding over it, to consider it the most central of all philosophic problems, central because so pregnant.

What does determinism profess? It professes that those parts of the universe already laid down absolutely appoint and decree what the other parts shall be.