Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
William JamesThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
William JamesTruths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
William James