"The most immutable barrier in nature is..." - Quote by William James
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
More by William James
“In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.”
“We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”
“The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.”
More on Communication
“He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.”
“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”
“In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.”
More on Mind
“I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things”
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
“We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.”