"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition." ― Henry James Topic(s): History More From Henry James "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process." "Life is a predicament which precedes death." More In History "When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature."― Joseph Gordon-Levitt "The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."― William James "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."― Marcus Tullius Cicero