"This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. Polarizing and magnetizing us as they do, we turn towards them and from them, we seek them, hold them, hate them, bless them, just as if they were so many concrete beings."
— James, William (1842-1910)
Author
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Longman, Green, and Co
Date
1901-2, 1902
Metaphor
"This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. Polarizing and magnetizing us as they do, we turn towards them and from them, we seek them, hold them, hate them, bless them, just as if they were so many concrete beings."
Metaphor in Context
This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. Polarizing and magnetizing us as they do, we turn towards them and from them, we seek them, hold them, hate them, bless them, just as if they were so many concrete beings. And beings they are, beings as real in the realm which they inhabit as the changing things of sense are in the realm of space.
(pp. 56-7)
(pp. 56-7)
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Provenance
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Citation
Text from William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 11th Impression (New York and Bombay: Longman, Green, and Co., 1905). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
01/03/2012
