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

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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of go...more

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My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

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All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

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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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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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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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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

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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