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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
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

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