Quote added by staff

Why not add this to your book or post it to your site/blog?

I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of mans pride, if you give them time. The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top. You need take no notice of these ebullitions of spleen, which are probably quite unintelligible to anyone but myself.   James, William

  Chat about this quote in the Village Inn

  Share corrections or notes in the village Library

Source: WILLIAM JAMES, letter to Mrs. Henry Whitman, June 7, 1899.The Letters of William James, ed. Henry James, vol. 2, p. 90 . · This quote is tagged Uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation · Help your friends discover QB

• Biography
• Fans
• This quote in blogs