Quotes About Belief

I point out to Ben that, contrary to popular belief, taking action is not always the best course.

Eroticism, intertwined as it is with imagination, is another form of play. I think of play as an alternative reality midway between the actual and the fictitious, a safe space where we experiment, reinvent ourselves, and take chances. Through play we suspend disbelief—we pretend something is real even when we damn well know it is not. Earnestness has no place here.

To quote Rachel Botsman, "Trust is a confident relationship to the unknown.

Optimism is an attempt to circumvent the truth.

Tycho Brahe clung to a lousy idea, Hans. That's all it was. People like us—you must know this by now—we can't do that. We know damn well when we're right. We know a long time before anyone else even suspects it." He cleared his throat. "Or when we're wrong. That's how we live. That's how we die.

With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.

If someone asks me if I believe in God, I shake my head like I couldn't give a shit, but the truth is, I do. I just don't know what to do about it.

Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural narratives, we get a glimpse of our modern selves as a deeply insecure and fearful people. We are investing our great wealth in researching and treating this disorder because we have rather suddenly lost other belief systems that once gave meaning and context to our suffering.

For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.

He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope

Psihoz? colectiv?, domnule Dudard, psihoz? colectiv?! Ca ?i religia, care-i opiumul popoarelor!

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

I don't believe in seeing evil in everything. I leave that to the inquisitors.

IubiÈ›i cititori...fiecare dintre voi are dreptate, numai ceilalÈ›i greÈ™esc. Totdeauna. Cu o condiÈ›ie: nici unul dintre voi s? nu-È™i închipuie c? e celalalt. Nu v? încredeÈ›i în afirmaÈ›iile altora. RepuneÈ›i totul în discuÈ›ie. FiÈ›i voi înÈ™iv?. Nu ascultaÈ›i nici un sfat: cu excepÈ›ia acestuia.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.

All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.

1st KEEPER: Who said nobody and nothing could ever belong to us? 2nd KEEPER: What a breach between heart and head! 1st KEEPER: What a contradiction! 2nd KEEPER: He doesn't believe what he thinks or think what he believes.

What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

Yes, facts don't mean a thing, do they? What you want to believe, that's the only truth!

HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

It makes it so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion, knowing everyone is spying on me, and none of you believe in me, or trust me.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.