I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. - William James

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I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

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About William James

William James (11 January 1842 – 26 August 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism, and wrote influential books on the science of psychology, the psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism.

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I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

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The world of our experience consists at all times of two parts, an objective and a subjective part, of which the former may be incalculably more extensive than the latter, and yet the latter can never be omitted or suppressed. The objective part is the sum total of whatsoever at any given time we may be thinking of, the subjective part is the inner "state" in which the thinking comes to pass.

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