Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
Belief is thought at rest.
Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
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