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    Known as the founders of the American philosophical school of Pragmatism. Both were born to wealthy New England families and educated at Harvard. Both also dealt with a diverse array of subjects and disciplines.

    James:
    "It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
    "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
    "There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see. Abstract rules indeed can help; but they help the less in proportion as our intuitions are more piercing, and our vocation is the stronger for the moral life. For every real dilemma is in literal strictness a unique situation; and the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without a precedent, and for which no adequate previous rule exists."
    "Now in all of us, however constituted, but to a degree the greater in proportion as we are intense and sensitive and subject to diversified temptations, and to the greatest possible degree if we are decidedly psychopathic, does the normal evolution of character chiefly consist in the straightening out and unifying of the inner self. The higher and the lower feelings, the useful and the erring impulses, begin by being a comparative chaos within us — they must end by forming a stable system of functions in right subordination. Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order-making and struggle."

    Peirce:
    "When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness."
    "In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says,
    Open your mouth and shut your eyes
    And I'll give you something to make you wise;
    and thereupon she keeps her promise, and seems to take her pay in the fun of tormenting us."
    "The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea."
    "All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."


    "Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist." - John Dewey

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