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Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?

— David Zindell The Broken God (1992)

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You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

War in Heaven (1998)

Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.

The Wild (1995)

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

War in Heaven (1998)

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

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The memory of all things is in all things, Danlo remembered.

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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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