All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
William JamesThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesPhilosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
William JamesTo be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William James