Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

I am going to be addressing people's hopes, not playing on people's fears.

I find myself having to choose between my hopes and my fears,

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration: I mean a Future Life

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.