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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

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Making Somewhere
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cash Experience Stream
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Mean Ugly
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Function Intellect Thinking
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES

Destiny Men Tree
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Altering Life Mind States
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive

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

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