"In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down ...

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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
More William James quotes
"Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
"The mind is at every stage a theater of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparison of these with each other, the selection o...
"Four Characters in Consciousness—How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters in the process, of which it shall be the duty of t...
"It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call ‘something the...