"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. It is precisely as being solemn experiences that I wish to interest you in religious experiences."
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William James, in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
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