Belief+and+Faith

> //Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits. //(Antonio Machado) >> //First there is a time when we believe everything without reasons, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again—and, moreover, give reasons why we believe everything. //(Georg Christoph Lichtenburg)
 * What may be meant by Ugo Betti’s comment that “When you want to believe in something you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it”?
 * How do beliefs about the world, and beliefs about what is valuable, influence the pursuit of knowledge?
 * To what extent can beliefs be justified on the basis of ways of knowing? To what extent should they be justified this way?
 * Does some degree of unjustified belief exist within each element of the TOK diagram?
 * What may be meant by the following comment?