Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.