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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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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for...more

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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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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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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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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An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till ...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.

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It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly sure that she would prove an angel aft...more

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I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the gam...more

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Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our belief in truth itself, for instance, that there i...more