William James Quotes About Authority
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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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.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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