William James Quote: The only function that one experience can perform...

The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of is the reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to or can lead to the same end as another, they agree in function.

— William James

Source: Radical Empiricism - A World of Pure Experience - 1912

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Select Quotes by William James

The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, as something which we simply come upon and find, and about which if we wish to act we should pause and wonder as little as possible.

— William James

Source: The Sentiment of Rationality - 1882