Quote of The Week Sent In By Greg Bover

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

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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.

Greg Bover

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