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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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.
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Art Men Philosophy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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 all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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