5 Quotes by William James about belief
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Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.
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we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
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The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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