The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
William JamesPretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
William JamesAn idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
William James