A quote by Emerson on Success showed up as a meme on FB and maybe other places too.. It got me thinking of William James and W.B. Yeats words that I associate with "success" in the tacky commercialized sense and wondering if Emerson really said(or wrote this).. It's good that I searched because he probably didn't maybe he wasn't quite this 'pedantic' !?? I want to read and think a it more with his other poems though too.^2
> "this has the same pedantic feel and plodding meter of 'Success,' and WHC's dates are close to Emerson's. It appears that this type of writing was in vogue in the 2nd half of the 19th C. Even if 'Success' can't be found in WHC's writings, I think a search of the writings of Unitarians of that period are likely to bear fruit." Perhaps someone will be motivated to take an interest and follow this up.
https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Emerson/success.htm
^2 https://amblesideonline.org/poet-emerson
https://www.poetryverse.com/ralph-waldo-emerson-poems/success
Yeats book; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36865
和訳: https://gtgsh.hatenablog.com/entry/6bf841fa51b5b745305ec6a497811e2a
James article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/23/william-james-centenary
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James
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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~ #WilliamJames
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I know I've been making a lot of wild claims and manifesting all over the place, leaving Mastodon a Jackson Pollock painting of my sudden opinions on everything from metaphysics to the arcseconds a dominion can turn her leg doing a pirouette on the head of a pin needle.
I'm not saying anyone should be concerned, I'm just saying the more I start to look like one of William James's model subjects at the turn of the 20th century, the more concerned I get. 🤪
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Before Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'.
A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)
More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
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I am very curious to read this book by William James from 1909, but now I am perhaps even more curious to know more about that "Ecological Physics Research Group" headed by Glen Schaefer 40-50 years ago.
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A quotation from William James
“Peace” in military mouths today is a synonym for “war expected.” The word has become a pure provocative, and no government wishing peace sincerely should allow it ever to be printed in a newspaper. Every up-to-date dictionary should say that “peace” and “war” mean the same thing, now in posse, now in actu. It may even reasonably be said that the intensely sharp preparation for war by the nations is the real war, permanent, unceasing; and that the battles are only a sort of public verification of the mastery gained during the “peace”-interval.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)
More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79340/
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Independent thinkers 12 years ago:
> David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, declared that Filipinos had done no more than rebel against “alien control” and that therefore “it was our fault and ours alone that this war began.” The revered Harvard professor William James said that Americans were guilty of “murdering another culture” and concluded one of his speeches by declaring, “God damn the U.S. for its vile conduct in the Philippines!”
https://libcom.org/article/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
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A quotation from William James
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. Showing war’s irrationality and horror is of no effect upon him. The horrors make the fascination. War is the strong life; it is life in extremis; war-taxes are the only ones men never hesitate to pay; as the budgets of all nations show us.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)
More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/78820/
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A quotation from William James
History is a bath of blood.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)
More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/19710/
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The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate His processes to the convenience of individuals.
-- William James
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«El mundo que vemos que parece tan loco es el resultado de sistemas de creencias que no funcionan.
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