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I cannot comment on your beliefs. What appears self-evident to one person may seem to another observer to be entirely the product of an idiosyncratic bent.

— Matthew Hughes Majestrum (2006)

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Life is a hopeless rear guard action against an overwhelming foe; still how can we not admire those who battle on regardless?

Majestrum (2006)

But in this age, logic was a flame that must be frequently starved of fuel.

The Spiral Labyrinth (2007)

“You ask if anyone has ‘tested the concept.’ But why would anyone test reality? Reality is not for testing, but for living with.”

The Spiral Labyrinth (2007)

“Often, when a stranger says, ‘Trust me,’ a wise man puts his hand on his purse and backs away.”

The Spiral Labyrinth (2007)

When all the good ideas have been expended, I quoted to myself, one might as well try a bad one.

Hespira (2009)

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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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