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  • Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

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    William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

  • My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

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    Diary, 30 Apr. 1870

  • The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

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    William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.180, Courier Corporation

  • The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

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    William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.391, Harvard University Press

  • The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

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    William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社
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William James

  • Born: January 11, 1842
  • Died: August 26, 1910
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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