Date: 1901-2, 1902
"Speaking generally, our moral and practical attitude, at any given time, is always a resultant of two sets of forces within us, impulses pushing us one way and obstructions and inhibitions holding us back. "Yes! yes!" say the impulses; "No! no !" say the inhibitions."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: Summer 2009
"It is in this sense that the first-personal perspective is strictly unavoidable: I am not a passenger on a vessel pulled hither and yon by impulses and desires; I have to steer."
preview | full record— Pippin, Robert B. (b. 1948)