Alice James Quotes
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
James, Alice. The Diary of Alice James. Edited by Leon Edel, Dodd, Mead, 1964, p. 112.
She had been warned by a friend, Elizabeth Shaw, that her son had become a little too self assured.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
A number of American politicians are so xenophobic that they do not believe that there is anything America or Americans have to learn from foreigners or other nations. They are often apoplectic when in a legal case for example, one of the attorneys cites a case in another country or the practice of another country. Reaction is similar sometimes when policy alternatives are being debated.
Alice James was an American diarist, sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have been badly affected by his marriage. James suffered lifelong health problems, that were generally dismissed as hysteria, in the style of the day. She is best known for her published diaries.
