Quotes About Belief

I morti non hanno altra vita all'infuori di quella che i vivi attribuiscono loro»

Men,' I said to myself, 'suffer because they are deprived of that which they believe to be good; or because, possessing it they fear to lose it; or because they endure that which they believe to be an evil. Put an end to all beliefs of this kind, and the evils would disappear.

Si cinquante millions de gens disent une sottise, ça n'en reste pas moins une sottise.

Bonnard," I said to myself, "thou knowest how to decipher old texts; but thou dost not know how to read in the Book of Life. That giddy little Madame Trepof, whom thou once believed to possess no more soul than a bird, has expended, in pure gratitude, more zeal and finer tact than thou didst ever show for anybody's sake. Right royally hath she repaid thee for the log-fire of her churching-day!

sin el Infierno y el Purgatorio nadie se preocuparía de Dios.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Throughout history libraries have testified to what a civilization meant, or wanted to believe it meant.

So often, our acts of love are what help people believe the reality of Jesus' love.

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God.

Whether the world be good or evil I cannot say, but I am certain that it is men like Bazin who make it a better place. For, in believing life to be good and behaving accordingly, André had a beneficial effect on all who came in contact with him, and one could count on the fingers of one hand those who behaved badly toward him.

This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not.

As I go on my way I may happen to fall from a precipice or be pursued by stones, but each time, I beg you to believe, it's only a reality.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.

Les hommes désespèrent stupidement de l'amour - j'en ai désespéré - ils vivent asservis à cette idée que l'amour est toujours derrière eux, jamais devant eux : les siècles passés, le mensonge de l'oubli à vingt ans. Ils supportent, ils s'aguerrissent à admettre surtout que l'amour ne soit pas pour eux, avec son cortège de clartés, ce regard sur le monde qui est fait de tous les yeux de devins.

Se Deus não existisse, tudo seria permitido'', diz um personagem de Dostoiévski. Não é verdade, porque, crente ou não, tu não se permite tudo: tudo, inclusive o pior, não seria digno de ti! (...) Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they might believe you.

Kafam?za yerle?en ku?kular zincirleme may?n çukurlar? gibi patlar ve bir a?k? ancak art arda gelen patlamalarla y?kabilir

Kas myli, skleidžia kitam savo vidaus "aš" švies? tik?damasis išvysti tos šviesos atspind?.