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: 2000
"Emotions, atavisms, would be set aside, while reason -- the nabob of all faculties -- went about its work."
preview | full record— Amis, Martin (b. 1949)