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Quotes from The Sentiment of Rationality — William James

1842–1910 United States

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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

The Sentiment of Rationality (1882)

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

The Sentiment of Rationality (1882)

The concrete man has but one interest — to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it.

The Sentiment of Rationality (1882)

That nature will follow to-morrow the same laws that she follows to-day is, they all admit, a truth which no man can know; but in the interests of cognition as well as of action we must postulate or assume it.

The Sentiment of Rationality (1882)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William James (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.