...This call to civic activity has been expressed by no one so well as by William James, when he says: These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid...that life is worth living, and your belief will help to create the fact. The scientific proof that you are right may not be clear until the Day of Judgment...

...strict posyjvist pronounces upon our faith — sound to us like mere chatterings of the teeth. . . These then are my last words to you : Be not afraid...life. Believe that life is worth living, and your qelief will help create the fact. The ' scientific proof ' that you are right may not be clear before...

...strict positivist pronounces upon our faith — sound to us like mere chatterings . of the teeth. . . These then are my last words to you : Be not afraid of life. Believe that life It worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. The ' scientific ' proof that you are right...

...resolved to live again. William James thus concludes the essay in which he discusses the worth of living: "These, then, are my last words to you : Be not afraid of life. . . . The 'scientific proof that you are right may not be clear before the day of judgment . . . is...

...intellectual stock in trade the inspirational literature manifests. "Believe," he says at one point, "that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact" (Essays, p. 311. However, the literature, taking the stance that "faith is the answer," hardly bothers...

...eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals. ... Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth...living, and your belief will help create the fact." James's belief became more difficult as the twentieth century wore on. Philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941)...

...President Ronald Reagan at summit, December 1987 (See Diplomacy, Government, Tact) Positive Thinking Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James Never mention the worst. Never think of it. Drop it out of your consciousness. At...

...whatever worth your own enduring experience might have given to it." Then he issues his final challenge: "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."5 Suicide is a reality. Many of us know of someone who has completed suicide. Most of us know...

...said. James, who had suffered from suicidal depression as a young man, concluded with the challenge, "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth...living, and your belief will help create the fact." Eighty-seven years later, at the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Association of Suicidology,...

...Worth Living?" James exhorted those of weak mind and body to become believers and, in the process, "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."53 Fortunately, the Jamesian discourse of heroism was built upon a foundation sturdier than the...