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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

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