Quote of the week, September 20, 2010:
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
—William James 1842-1910
Brother of novelist Henry James, Godson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, James taught at Harvard most of his adult life and was a leader in the Pragmatic School of Philosophy.
He wrote The Principles of Philosophy in 1890, The Will to Believe in 1897, and the influential Varieties of Religious Experience in 1902.