Famous quotes containing the words james and/or gordon:
“‘Intellectualism’ is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens ... to stumble upon it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)