Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the …

William James
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ✨ William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). James and Dewey on Belief and Experience, p.124, University of Illinois Press
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