William James Quotes

If I Refuse To Stop A Murder Because I Am In Doubt Whether It Be Not Justifiable Homicide, I Am Virtually Abetting The Crime. If I Refuse To Bale Out A Boat Because I Am In Doubt Whether My Efforts Will Keep Her Afloat, I Am Really Helping To Sink Her. If In The Mountain Precipice I Doubt My Right To Risk A Leap, I Actively Connive At My Destruction. He Who Commands Himself Not To Be Credulous Of God, Of Duty, Of Freedom, Of Immortality, May Again And Again Be Indistinguishable From Him Who Dogmatically Denies Them. Scepticism In Moral Matters Is An Active Ally Of Immorality. Who Is Not For Is Against. The Universe Will Have No Neutrals In These Questions. In Theory As In Practice, Dodge Or Hedge, Or Talk As We Like About A Wise Scepticism, We Are Really Doing Volunteer Military Service For One Side Or The Other.

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