Philosophy Quote by Henry James — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”

“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”

“I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.”

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”

“Ideas are the source of all things”

“Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a man—Jesus had demanded—if he were to gain the whole world, and lose his own life?”

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

“Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.”