James, William

"The union of the mathematician with the poet founds the entirety of visible things."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together."

"Every time a man finds himself thus condemned to work for his daily bread, he loses something that is precious to him."

"All natural goods are connected with experience by relations of cause and effect."

"Sour grapes have often been sugar coated, and eaten for sweetness."

"I don't see why we cannot have exactly as rich and rational a conception of matters."

"Even the most abstract imaginative flights of the mind are but footnotes and commentary on fundamental truths."

"Whatever passes into the mind through the senses becomes the foundation of knowledge."

"The business of thinking is to make things that we see stand out in sharp relief."

"To the unbiased mind, the human world opens itself up with charm and significance."

"No one can be fully free until all are free."

"There is no greater curse than the want of a single ideal."

"In many ways, the metaphysical is the most practical of all sciences."

"The stream of thought flows in this way and no other."

"It must be the maxim of every honorable man, to act as if the wellbeing of the world depended upon his own efforts."

"When a difficult problem calls for solution, the more minds working on it the better."

"The greatest revolution of our generation has been the discovery that you can change your outer world by changing your inner world."

"A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future, and of approving or disapproving of his own conduct."

"The present moment, then, is the link between all moments, the eternal now."

"Your conscious mind is like the visible tip of an iceberg of unfathomed depth."

"The only way to overcome an enemy is to first understand him."

"All great adventures can be broken into a thousand small steps."

"The greatest gift we can give one another is our authentic selves."