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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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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Law Science Together
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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