The philosophy which isso important in each of us isnot a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means† it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

-James,William
  Pragmatism, lecture1.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

-Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert
  The ScarletTree, bk.4, ch.2.