Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.William James
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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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do.
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Religion ... shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
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