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

William James

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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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

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