PHILOSOPHY – The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience William James A Study in Human Nature LECTURE XVIII – PHILOSOPHY, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

I do believe that feeling is the deeper source of religion, and that philosophic and theological formulas are secondary products, like translations of a text into another tongue. But all such statements are misleading from their brevity, and it will take the whole hour for me to explain to you exactly what I mean.