Quote#Speech
The sentiment of reality can indeed attach itself so strongly to our…
Quote byWilliam James · 1842–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lecture III, "The Reality of the Unseen".
English (original)
The sentiment of reality can indeed attach itself so strongly to our object of belief that our whole life is polarized through and through, so to speak, by its sense of the existence of the thing believed in, and yet that thing, for the purpose of definite description, can hardly be said to be present to our mind at all.
— William James
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