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The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its exist...more

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we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actu...more

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

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Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

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the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

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It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being rel...more

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See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and ...more

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The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to ...more

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There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.