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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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