"Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to..." - Quote by William James

“The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.”

“Act the part and you will become the part.”

“We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.”

“What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”

“Truth is something that happens to an idea.”

“The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.”

“To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.”

“You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it”