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

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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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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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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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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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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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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