A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. – 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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. – William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James
Everything youve learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. Theres not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller