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A world with a chance of being wholly good beats a world with no such chance
Drawn from what William James said
What William James actually said
- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
And if I still wish to think of the world as a totality, it lets me feel that a world with a chance in it of being altogether good, even if the chance never come to pass, is better than a world with no such chance at all.
Where this was said
↗The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1879-1896)gutenberg.org
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