There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
William JamesThe intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
William JamesIf an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
William James