Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or bennett:
“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource
To which embarrassed people have recourse.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)