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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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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."
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"Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same."
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"Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in."
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"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."
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"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
Chaos
"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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"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
Fact
"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."
Action
"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
Nature
"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."
Evolution
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Quality
"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
Envy
"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."
Belief
"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
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