In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
Georg Simmel
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to. -
In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. -
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. -
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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- In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
- For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
- Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
- Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
- Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.