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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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