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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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