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

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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

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