William James Quote

The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition — it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind — yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!


To Henry Rutgers Marshall (7 February 1899) - The Letters of William James (1920)


The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition — it is a matter of a hair, a shade,...

The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition — it is a matter of a hair, a shade,...

The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition — it is a matter of a hair, a shade,...

The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition — it is a matter of a hair, a shade,...