Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William JamesHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William JamesAn idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
William James