"Truth in our ideas means their power..." - Quote by William James

“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”

“Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.”

“Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.”

“Real eyes, realize, real lies.”

“Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.”

“There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.”

“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”