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Quotation from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text)
James introduces his division of philosophers into the tender-minded and the tough-minded.
Citation: "The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments." — William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text). (id james-pragmatism-q1)
Portrait: William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped), Alice Boughton, Public domain.
