"If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." ― William James Topic(s): Experience Tags: could, feeling, merely More From William James "There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse." "Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done." "It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again." More In Experience "We’re looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects."― Laurel Clark "If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."― Thomas J. Watson "There’s no experience like on-the-job training."― Hank Azaria