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 JamesIf theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
William JamesThe function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
William JamesThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
William James