Quotes About Belief

Jesus thus becomes an idol; the belief in him becomes the substitute for one's own act of loving. In a simple, unconscious formula: "Christ does all the loving for us; we can go on in the pattern of the Greek hero, yet we are saved because the alienated 'faith' in Christ is a substitute for the imitation of Christ." That Christian belief is also a cheap cover for one's own rapacious attitude goes without saying.

the individual must blind himself from seeing that which his group claims does not exist, or accept as truth that which the majority says is true, even if his own eyes could convince him that it is false. The herd is so vitally important for the individual that their views, beliefs, feelings, constitute reality for him, more so than what his senses and his reason tell him.

Çünkü devrim, hiçbir zaman umutsuzluk temeli üzerine kurulmam??t?r ve de kurulamaz.

Ä°nanç, kesin olmay???n kesinliÄŸidir. Ä°nsan?n kendi görüÅŸ ve kavray???n?n doÄŸru ve kesin olduÄŸuna inanmakt?r; gerçekliÄŸin ortaya koyaca?? nihai sonuca inanmak deÄŸildir.

Umut, inanç'a eÅŸlik eden ruh halidir. Umutluluk hali olmaks?z?n inanç ayakta duramaz, dayan?ks?z kal?r. Umut yaln?z ve yaln?z inanç temeli üzerinde durabilir.

Yeni bilim'in geliÅŸmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiÅŸ Avrupa'da, dinsel deÄŸerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi baÅŸgöstermiÅŸtir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu ÅŸu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiÅŸtir: Tanr? yoksa, her ÅŸey mümkündür.

Umut yok olduÄŸunda, yaÅŸam olgusal ya da gizil (potansiyel) olarak sona ermiÅŸtir. Umut, yaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?nda, insan ruhunun dinamiÄŸinde varolan bir öÄŸedir. YaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?n? oluÅŸturan bir baÅŸka öÄŸeye çok yak?ndan baÄŸl?d?r. Bu öge, inanç'd?r.

A person even if he is subjectively sincere, may frequently be driven unconsciously by a motive that is different from the one he believes himself to be driven by

In this sense all cultures are religious and every neurosis is a private form of religion, provided we mean by religion an attempt to answer the problem of human existence.

Ich lüge auch. Aber ich weiß es. Ich weiß, dass das System falsch ist. Bei uns in der Wirtschaft sieht das ein Blinder. Aber ich diene dem falschen System mit Hingabe. Denn im Rahmen des falschen Systems, dem ich mein bescheidenes Talent zur Verfügung stelle, sind die falschen Maßnahmen naturgemäß richtig und die richtigen sind begreiflicherweise falsch.

Merken Sie sich folgendes: Meldungen, deren Unwahrheit nicht oder erst nach Wochen festgestellt werden kann, sind wahr.

Sie dürfen ihm nichts übelnehmen. Er ist seit zwanzig Jahren Journalist und glaubt bereits, was er lügt. Über seinem Gewissen liegen zehn weiche Betten, und obenauf schläft Herr Münzer den Schlaf des Ungerechten.

Dieser Theaterkritiker konnte die selbstverständlichsten und unstreitigsten Dinge äußern, sobald er es war, der sie behauptete, wirkten sie unglaubwürdig und reizten zum Widerspruch.

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress--to the future. We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief.

Inimene elatub 75 protsenti omaenda fantaasiast ja ainult 25 protsenti faktidest – see on tema tugevus ja tema nõrkus.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Albert expresses it: "The war has ruined us for everything." He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war. The

Ravic straightened up. "Faith can easily make one fanatical. That's why all religions have cost so much blood." He grinned. "Tolerance is the daughter of doubt, Eugénie. That explains why you, with all your faith, are so much more aggressive toward me than I, lost infidel, am toward you." Veber