"The subjectivist in morals, when his moral..." - Quote by William James
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
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“A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.”
“To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.”
“You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.”
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