William James Quotes About Reflection

Quotes about: Reflection

• 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

  William James

  Reflection, Names, Flux

  William James (2015). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

  William James

  Reflection, Pope, Instinct

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.12, 谷月社

• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

  William James

  Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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