William James Quote

Facts are there only for those who have a mental affinity with them. When once they are indisputably ascertained and admitted, the academic and critical minds are by far the best fitted ones to interpret and discuss them, - for surely to pass from mystical to scientific speculations is like passing from lunacy to sanity...

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, What Psychical Research Has Accomplished (p. 301), Longmans, Green & Co. 1899