Famous quotes containing the words james and/or 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)
“These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 20:12.