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.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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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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