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William James
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To be is to be related.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness.
The trail of the human serpent is over everything.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is genuinely impossible for our intellect to find any more reason for choosing one over the other.
The most common and perhaps the most important feature of religious experience is the sense of the divine.
The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.