William James Quote

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.


Ch. 9 - The Principles of Psychology (1890)


The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested ...

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested ...

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested ...

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested ...