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Quotation from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
“Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map”
The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism
On the meaning of altered states of consciousness for a theory of reality.
Citation: "Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map" — William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism. (id the-varieties-of-religious-experience-q12)
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.
