William James

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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