6 Quotes by William James about faith
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
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To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
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