The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesWe with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
William JamesA man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
William JamesBe patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.
William James