William James Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

  William James

  Bible, Religious, Book

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

• Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

  William James

  Science, Authority, Accounts

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.39, 谷月社

• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  William James

  Anxiety, Experts, Saint

  William James (2017). “Habit”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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