"Both thought and feeling are determinants of..." - Quote by William James
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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More on Behavior
“A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.”
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More on Thought
“Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.”
“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.”
“Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.”