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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.
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Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.
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Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
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