Never a Reason for Complaint

We couldn't have the Good Stuff without the Annoying Stuff!

The sole condition of our having anything, no matter what, is that we should have so much of it, that we are fortunate if we do not grow sick of the sight and sound of it altogether. Everything is smothered in the litter that is fated to accompany it. Without too much you cannot have enough, of anything. Lots of inferior books…of tenth-rate men and women, as a condition of the few precious specimens…the gold-dust comes to birth with the quartz-sand all around it.

--A PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE, ch. 8, William James

Courtesy Richard Lawrence Cohen

Comments

[Richard Lawrence Cohen]

Thanks for the link!

[dilys]

Thanks for putting it up, Richard. Every time I read William James, I think "Why don't I read more William James?!" So logical and scientific and imaginative all at the same time....