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

William James

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
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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