"Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case." ― William James Topic(s): Faith Tags: faith More From William James "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds." More In Faith "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."― Joseph Conrad "Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow."― Romain Rolland "In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief."― Georg Simmel