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We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

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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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In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down ...more

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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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Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we shoul...more

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Psychology is the science of mental life

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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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We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of char...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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Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the sounds of the world melt into a confuse...more

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I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-traine...more

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The mind is at every stage a theater of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparison of these with each other, the selection o...more

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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geomete...more

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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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A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.