„No philosophic knowledge of the general nature and constitution of tendencies, or of the relation of larger to smaller ones, can help us to predict which of all the various competing tendencies that interest us in this universe are likeliest to prevail.“ (p. 187) #James #knowledge
„In the physical world we make with impunity the assumption that one and the same material object can figure in an indefinitely large number of different processes at once.“ (p. 129) #James #PhysicalWorld
„Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world’s arrangements that any one can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.“ (p. 39) #Mill #HighestVirtue #happiness
„When things become signs, when they gain a representative capacity as standing for other things, play is transformed from mere physical exuberance into an activity involving a mental factor.“ (p. 116) #Dewey #play #representation
„The process of developing the bearings—or, as they are more technically termed, the implications—of any idea with respect to any problem, is termed reasoning.“ (p. 59) #Dewey #Reasoning