“ The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason. ”
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“ I hear you say: ‘All that is not /fact/ : it is poetry’. Nonsense! Bad poetry is false, I grant; but nothing is truer than true poetry. And let me tell the scientific men that the artists are much finer and more accurate observers than they are, except of the special minutiae that the scientific man is looking for. ”
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“ It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ”
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“ The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. ”
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“ Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact… ”
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“ The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ”
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“ All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ”
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“ Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment. ”
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“ The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ”
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“ The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ”
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“ The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ”
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“ It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation. ”
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“ Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ”
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“ Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact… ”
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“ We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ”
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“ We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ”
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“ All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ”
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“ It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation. ”
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“ We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ”
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“ Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ”
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“ We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ”
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“ It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. ”
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“ It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ”
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“ It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. ”
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“ All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ”
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“ We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ”
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“ We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. ”
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“ We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. ”
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“ Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact… ”
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