We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
William JamesTruths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
William JamesMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
William JamesMan's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
William James