Quote #36
A thing is important if anyone think it important.
More from William James
- A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
- In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
- 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, …
- Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of …
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified res…
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
- This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.