Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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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.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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