A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
William JamesPhilosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
William JamesThe God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
William JamesThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
William James