Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Custom and convention Moral relativism Moral theory Morality

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Humorist Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 25. Originally from Notebook, c. 1896.

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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

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Evidence Certainty

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William James
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The Will to Believe
Genre
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Time
1896 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

James, William. "The Will to Believe." Philosophical Club of Yale University. Apr. 1896, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." William James: Essays and Lectures, edited by Richard Kamber. Routledge, 2016.

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A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

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Moral theory

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Patrice Lumumba
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Congo, My Country
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Lumumba, Patrice. Congo, My Country. Praeger, 1962, ch. 3.