Thomas Mason > Thomas's Quotes

“For we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
― Melville Herman, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?”
― William James

“For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.”
― Arthur O'Shaugnessy

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run