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The unreasoned and immediate assurance is the deep thing in us,
the reasoned argument is but surface exhibition.
Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.

Mo's wood sculpture

~ William James (1842-1910), Author of The Principles of Psychology (1890),
The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897),
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902),  Pragmatism: A New Name for
Old Ways of Thinking
 (1907), The Meaning of Truth (1909) and other works

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-James