Jeff Sulik's Reviews > The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

I am reading and rereading these essays.
I find myself very drawn to this turn of the century American philosopher/psychologist. I need to think about why I find his thoughts appealing and then I can say more.


Here is a quote from the last paragraph of the first essay, which the collection is titled from:

"If a man chooses to turn his back altogether on God and the future,no one can prevent him; no one can show beyond reasonable doubt that he is mistaken. If a man thinks otherwise and acts as he thinks, I do not see that any one can prove that HE is mistaken. Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him."

hmmmmmm