"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."
― William James
Topic(s):
Age
More From William James
- "The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
- "In business for yourself, not by yourself."
- "‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
More In Age
- "The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."― Desiderius Erasmus
- "In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."― Linus Torvalds
- "I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely."― Camille Pissarro