Quote #32
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
More from William James
- The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, …
- Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occ…
- A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
- Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experien…
- A thing is important if anyone think it important.