"Instinct leads, logic does but follow...." - Quote by William James

“Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”

“The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.”

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”

“Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.”

“The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.”

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”

“If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”

“We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.”

“Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.”