The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James
Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James