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

Quote by William James

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious....

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious....

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits,...

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits,...

Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it...

Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it...

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker...

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker...

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are...

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are...

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any...

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any...

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good...

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good...

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything...

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything...

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss...

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss...

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the...

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the...

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.