William James — "A man's character is his fate."

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

"The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substituting a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes."

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse of the individual withers without the sympathy of the community."

"When we survey the whole field of actual experience, we find it to be a tissue of different kinds of reality."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For every one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laughter."