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

We keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

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

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.