Reflections: Wanting to Believe "If you've ever wanted to believe something, ask yourself where that desire comes from. Hint: it's not the desire simply to believe what's true." * Crony Beliefs
Emerson's Self-Reliance: Reason "If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but
The Reality of Heaven - The Brothers Karamazov ""That life is heaven," he said to me suddenly, "that I have long been thinking about"; and all at once he added, "I think of nothing else indeed." He looked at me and smiled. "I am more convinced of it than you