"Commensurateness" Quotes from Famous Books
... authoritatively appeal, not an emotion of which it does not normally and naturally release the springs. At a single stroke, it changes the dead blank it of the world into a living thou, with whom the whole man may have dealings. To you, at any rate, I need waste no words in trying to prove its supreme commensurateness with all the demands that department Number Three of the mind has the power to impose on ... — The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James |