The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesFirst... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
William JamesThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
William JamesThe instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
William James