Evil Quote by William James

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are…

— William James

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is…

— William James

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years…

— Jorge Luis Borges

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves,…

— Auberon Herbert

“We must be convinced that there are no such things as 'Christian principles.' There is the Person of Christ, who is the principle of…

— Jacques Ellul

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

— William James

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

— Dean Koontz

It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when…

— Maya Deren

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too…

— Eric G. Wilson

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Morbidity and Mortality Rounds Forgive me, body before me, for this. Forgive me for my bumbling hands, unschooled in how to touch: I meant…

— Rafael Campo