Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.