Date: 1892, 1899
"The more adequate the stock of ideas, the more 'able' is the man, the more uniformly appropriate is his behavior likely to be."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1892, 1899
"This mental escort which the mind supplies is drawn, of course, from the mind's ready-made stock."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1900
"Who stamped us with the minting die / Of this unconquerable need / To know the unknown Deity / And name the nameless in a creed?"
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900, 1901
"Between nature and ourselves, nay, between ourselves and our own consciousness a veil is interposed: a veil that is dense and opaque for the common herd,--thin, almost transparent, for the artist and the poet. What fairy wove that veil?"
preview | full record— Bergson, Henri-Louis (1859-1941)
Date: 1900, 1901
"We move amidst generalities and symbols, as within a tilt-yard in which our force is effectively pitted against other forces; and fascinated by action, tempted by it, for our own good, on to the field it has selected, we live in a zone midway between things and ourselves, externally to things, e...
preview | full record— Bergson, Henri-Louis (1859-1941)