Quotes About Belief

On religious propaganda] Proclamations, gestures, articles of clothing, talismans, et cetera, become, through this propaganda, not symbolic of a belief but the demonstration of the belief itself.

Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen.

Again, simply declaring your goal won't help you attain your dream, but unless you declare it—unless you believe in it—you have no chance of attaining it.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Then you think there is no God? No, I think there quite probably is one. Then why? … Mustapha Mond checked him. But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now … How does he manifest himself now? asked the Savage. Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

But if you know about God, why don't you tell them?' asked the Savage indignantly. 'Why don't you give them these books about God?' 'For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.' 'But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' All the difference in the world,' said Mustapha Mond.

God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are—there we are in the Golden Future.

His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.

It's good to be cynical, he said. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.

The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.