"A little cooling down of animal excitability..." - Quote by William James

“Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.”

“The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.”

“We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”

“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”

“To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.”

“When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”