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Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel lecture (1978)

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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