William James Quotes
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
James, William. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907, p. 63.
He is one of the later people to express this idea but at the time, most political pundits and politicians were unaware of most of the others. See related quotes.
Write observes that the fact that so many people believe that this is so, that they work hard and that in part makes it so.
This important political concept has a long history. See also {605259}, {626144}, {607508}, and {585931}
William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".
