Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William Jamesإن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه - سبحانه وتعالى - تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.
William JamesTag: god spiritual wishes self-awareness allah hopes
Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.
William JamesThere is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
William JamesTag: philosophy psychology hilarity
إن أعمق مبدأ في طبيعة الإنسان هو اللهفة في أن يتم تقديره
William JamesWhen a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.
William JamesMetaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.
William JamesTag: science truth philosophy psychology metaphysics
An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.
William JamesTag: truth psychology pragmatism w-v-o-quine web-of-belief
But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
William JamesTag: reason psychology theory
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William JamesTag: science religion spirituality theory proof harvard-professor-of-psychology
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