Chapters Quote by William James Download Open image “Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chapters Egotism History History Human Human Egotism Humans Monumental Chapter Nature of man Religion Religion Monumental
“Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
“Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.” — Ajmal Siddiqi Copy Share Image
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence… — Alan Jeskin Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need… — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen. — David Droga Copy Share Image