“If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.”

Past Might Belief

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Wallace Stevens

Poet

“The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.”

Fiction Belief Finals

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Wayne Dyer

Author, Motivational Speaker

“You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just the trail left behind. It can't make the boat go forward, any more than the trail that you've left behind in your life is responsible for where you're going now in your life. The belief that whatever you've been is what you have to be is a meme - a mind virus.”

Mind Belief Boat

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.”

Religious Belief Unions

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.”

Belief Free Will Decree

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