William James “Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.” William James Topics:LieTruth View all quotes by William James →
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” William James
“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.” William James
“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.” William James
