Quotes by William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

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Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refus — William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our belief in truth itse — William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act — William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that th — William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my — William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy