[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of thi…

William James
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits. ✨ William James (2008). Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals, p.56, Nuvision Pubns
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. ✨ Unsettling changes by Mike Small, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ✨ William James (1987). Essays, Comments, and Reviews, p.3, Harvard University Press
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellec … ▶
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. ✨ William James (1987). Essays, Comments, and Reviews, p.356, Harvard University … ▶

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