William James Quote: The union of the mathematician with the poet,...

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

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Consciousness… does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as “chain” or ‘train’ do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A”river” or a “stream” are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.
Source of the expression “stream of consciousness”.

— William James

Source: The Principles of Psychology - 1890