Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMESOur 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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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