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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

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