Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
Source: The Will to Believe (1897)
Topic
James defines faith as belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible — the best single-sentence definition in the collection. Luther separates works from faith without dismissing either. Washington pairs faith with justice and calls it the foundation of governance. Wordsworth calls it a passionate intuition; Kierkegaard finds his depression more faithful than anything else he has known. Blake insists that truth told so as to be understood is always believed. The collection ranges across religious faith, trust between people, and confidence in the future — united by the question of what it means to commit to something you cannot fully verify, and whether that commitment is naive or the only honest response to being alive.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact
Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed