Famous quotes containing the words james matthew, james and/or matthew:
“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)
“That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
—Bible: New Testament Matthew 10:34.