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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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

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