William James Quotes
The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.
At that time, the Republicans in Congress were able to block almost all the wanted by the Democratic President Barack Obama. Much of the behavior was motivated by a disagreement with the President’s proposals, but in many cases, the President had accepted and recommended what the Republicans had wanted (and in many cases had voted for earlier). The Republicans killed these proposals also going over the passive aggressive line that Wetzler had posited. Even when public opinion fell to less than 10 percent approval (lower than used car salesmen) for the Congressional Republicans, they were so locked in to the pattern of passive aggressive behavior, that they could not change.
William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".
