Ralph Barton Perry Quotes

July 3, 1876 – January 22, 1957

Ralph Barton Perry (3 July 1876 – 22 January 1957) was an American philosopher.

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.

Chap XXXI. The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War, (1918), New York: Longmans, Green

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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.

Ralph Barton Perry
— "Non-Resistance and The Present War - A Reply to Mr. Russell," International Journal of Ethics (April 1915), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 307-316

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

Ralph Barton Perry
— Chap XXXV. The Present Conflict of Ideals: (1918). (Among the traits Barton Perry lists as being possessed by Americans and inherited from British Puritans.)

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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.

Ralph Barton Perry
— The Thought and Character of William James (1935), vol. 1, ch. VIII

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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 Thoght and Character of William James" (1935), Vol 2, ch. LXIX

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July 3, 1876 – January 22, 1957

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