Quote #18003
When a thing is new, people say ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its...
Category Archives: William James
Quote #18004
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But...
Quote #18005
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several...
Quote #18006
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing...
Quote #16366
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of...
Quote #16235
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It...
Quote #15836
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a...
Quote #15644
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do,...
Quote #15271
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of...
Quote #15048
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best...