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William James1842–1910

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

William James on happiness

The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Happiness Religion

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