1842-1910 American psychologist and philosopher. A founder of pragmatism and the psychological movement of functionalism, he developed an approach to intellectual issues that greatly influenced American thought. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation.