Nature Quote by Voltaire

“James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he wanted: money,…

— Hazel Butler

“More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so well disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon…

— Voltaire

“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“William James wrote, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

— Wallace J. Nichols

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

— Anonymous

“I am writing a treatise just now" said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it, "which is…

— T.H. White

“The effect on James of being ignored by the people who stood to benefit the most from his work was to distance himself even…

— Michael Lewis

James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he…

— Hegesippus

“On 10 August 1914, five days after war was declared, Henry James, in a letter to a friend, expressed his revulsion at the prospect…

— Henry James

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

— Ralph Barton Perry

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez