Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
William JamesThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesMarvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
William JamesThe first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James