
“I am the one who has felt most deeply the stuttering of the tongue in its relation to thought.”
"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Under a Glass Bell (1944)
Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste.
“Sokrates und Alcibiades”
Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste.
“I am the one who has felt most deeply the stuttering of the tongue in its relation to thought.”
"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Under a Glass Bell (1944)
To his wife, Alice Gibbons James (1878)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Source: The Principles of Psychology
Context: I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"
“He is greatest who is most often in men’s good thoughts.”
Greatness
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
The Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys, p. 187
Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861) Summary of Book Fourth.
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”
Volume II, chapter V, section 30.
Source: The Stones of Venice (1853)