Famous quotes containing the words james and/or manley:
“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)