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1 " Glows of feeling, glimpses of insight, and streams of knowledge and perception float into our finite world. "
― , The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular P
2 " شاد ترین فرد را در نظر بگیرید، کسی که همه دنیا حسرت موفقیت های او را میخورند ولی باز هم در نه مورد از ده مورد در اعماق باطنش شکست و ناکامی را میبینید. چون یا آرمانهایش از دستاوردهایش بسیار بالاترند یا آرمان های نهفته ای دارد که دنیا از آن بی خبر است و او در درون خویش در ارتباط با آنها خود را نیازمند میبیند. "
― , The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature
3 " The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. "
4 " Religion . . . shall mean . . . the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine . . . The divine shall mean for us only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to respond to solemnly and gravely . . . "
5 " Does God really exist? What is he? are so many irrelevant questions. Not God, but life, more life, a larger, more satisfying life, is, in the last analysis, the end of religion. "