William James on Art
Browse 4 quotations attributed to William James, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to William James, entry #39016: "The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other."
Attributed to William James, entry #19877: "Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose."
4 Quotes by William James on Art
"The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other."
"Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose."
"The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition — it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind — yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!"
"No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, 'categories,' supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts."