Quotes About Belief

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

Apostasy implies an absolute damnation only on the supposition of a previous perfect faith. Does that fix it?

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away.

We heard it from three people so it must be true

And like most intellectuals who don't find faith convenient," he continued coldly, "like Napoleon and Oscar Wilde and the rest of your type, you'll yell loudly for a priest on your death-bed.

Au moment précis où sa voix s'éteignait, sans plus chercher mon attention, ni vouloir me convaincre, j'ai su que rien de ce qu'elle avait dit n'était vrai.

is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men—

I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. one thing I know. If living isn't' a seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.

Herkes temel erdemlerden hiç deÄŸilse bir tanesini ta??d???n? düÅŸünür. Bana gelince: ben bugüne dek tan?d???m üç beÅŸ dürüst insandan biriyim.

Thoughts are Things; things that have a tendency to transform into our reality.

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken --

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.