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

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way

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

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