“ The cause of all things is neither soul nor intellect ”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). copy citation
| Author | William James |
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| Source | The Varieties of Religious Experience |
| Topic | intellect soul |
| Date | 1902 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/621/621-h/621-h.html |
Context
“negating the negation which it seems to us to imply, in the interests of the higher affirmative attitude by which we are possessed. The fountain-head of Christian mysticism is Dionysius the Areopagite. He describes the absolute truth by negatives exclusively.
“The cause of all things is neither soul nor intellect; nor has it imagination, opinion, or reason, or intelligence; nor is it reason or intelligence; nor is it spoken or thought. It is neither number, nor order, nor magnitude, nor littleness, nor equality, nor inequality, nor similarity, nor dissimilarity.”
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