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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith; and Faith is an Act of Reason.

— Joseph Glanvill Essays on Several Important Subjects (1676)

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The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of Passions, that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to Verity.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

For Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need of a dose of Hellebore.

The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1662)

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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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