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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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

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