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• When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

  Howard Mumford Jones
• Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres are realities; the former, that they are generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing but an approximative set of symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be an error or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across the latitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James.

  Jorge Luis Borges
• Consider William James' 'self as observer'. It is hard to see anything impossible about it if we think of observers as pattern recognizers.

  William James
• Ruburt tuned in to the world view of a man known dead.He was aware, however, of the universe through William James' world view. As you might tune into a program on a television set, Ruburt tuned into the view of reality now held in the mind of William James.It can be perceived by others.

  William James
• This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

  Ralph Barton Perry

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