"Lives based on having are less free..." - Quote by William James

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”

“The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.”

“All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.”

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”

“Liberty is the right not to lie.”

“Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?”

“Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.”

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.”

“I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”