What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
More Quotes from William James:
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.William James
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
William James
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Chance Quotes, Death & Dying Quotes, Life Quotes, Light QuotesBased on Keywords: heroism, looker-on, romances, snatching
Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements.
Mark Dayton
There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.
Lindsey Graham
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis