The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical …

William James
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The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos. ✨ Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 1 (1907)
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