Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that
EXCEED verbal formulation. There is in the living act of
PERCEPTION always something that
GLIMMERS and
TWINKLES and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late. No one knows this as well as the philosopher. He must fire his volley of new vocables out of his conceptual shotgun, for his profession condemns him to this industry, but he <<secretly>> knows the hollowness and irrelevancy. … [Nothing can] wholly take the place of
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
-William James
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