5 Henry James Quotes on Perception

Henry James quotes on perception

11. It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.

18. She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.

51. Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

66. The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.

69. We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.