Wednesday Morning Musing

William James (brother of the novelist Henry) is widely recognized as one of the founders of Pragmatism as a branch of philosophy. Here's a quote from his book of that title from 1907:

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the
most trivial of human pursuits... It "bakes no bread,"
as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with
courage; and repugnant as its manners, its doubting
and challenging, its quibblings and dialectics, often
are to common people, no one of us can get along
without the far-flashing beams of light it sends over
the world's perspectives."