Famous quotes containing the words james and/or bowen:
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a crise ... of hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyond ... and became entered by a rather sublime feeling.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)