The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
William JamesWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
William JamesOur theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
William James