Quotes About Belief

Io però non ho mai preteso di dire la verità a nessuno, da una parte perché non serve a niente, e dall'altra perché non la conosco. Mio fratello maggiore, Dio onnipotente, credo che neppure lui la conosca, ma queste , tuttavia, sono questioni di famiglia.

La suprema gloria de todo esto, mi amor, estriba en pensar que tal vez nada de esto sea verdad, ni en yo creerlo verdadero.

To find one's personality by losing it — faith itself subscribes to that sense of destiny.

Nací en un tiempo en el que la mayoría de los jóvenes habían perdido la creencia en Dios, por la misma razón por la que sus mayores la habían tenido —sin saber por qué—

Mas se Deus é as flores e as árvores E os montes e sol e o luar, Então acredito nele, Então acredito nele a toda a hora, E a minha vida é toda uma oração e uma missa, E uma comunhão com os olhos e pelos ouvidos.   Mas

Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it – without knowing why.

A-Å£i g?si perosnalitatea în faptul de a o pierde,chiar ÅŸi credinÅ£a confirm? acest înÅ£eles al destinului.

To explain is to disbelieve.

To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity..... Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing not in its own right but completely and absolutely on behalf of some objective.

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I'm handed faith like a sealed package on a strange-looking platter and am expected to accept it without opening it. I'm handed science, like a knife on a plate, to cut the folios of a book whose pages are blank. I'm handed doubt, like dust inside a box--but why give me a box if all it contains is dust?

Without illusions, we live by dreaming, which is the illusion of those who can't have illusions.

Nunca duvidei que todos me traíssem; e pasmei sempre quando me traíram.

Nasci num tempo em que a maioria dos jovens tinham perdido a crença em Deus, pela mesma razão que os seus maiores a tinham tido — sem saber porquê.

A criança que pensa em fadas e acredita nas fadas Age como um deus doente, mas como um deus. Porque embora afirme que existe o que não existe Sabe como é que as coisas existem, que é existindo, Sabe que existir existe e não se explica, Sabe que não há razão nenhuma para nada existir, Sabe que ser é estar num ponto Só não sabe que o pensamento não é um ponto qualquer.

Pero el que sueña lo posible tiene la posibilidad real de la verdadera desilusión.

dieser heilige Instinkt, der uns veranlasst, keine Theorien zu haben...

Every sound mind believes in God. No sound mind believes in a definite God. There is some being, both real and impossible, who reigns over all things and whose person (if he has one) cannot be defined, and whose purposes (if he has any) cannot be fathomed. By calling this being God we say everything, since the word God – having no precise meaning – affirms him without saying anything.

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells. Art, if it frees us from the abstract idols of old, should also free us from magnanimous ideas and social concerns, which are likewise idols.

The end of the world, like the beginning, is in fact our concept of the world.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

I excuse you from having to appear in my idea of you.

Everything, for us, is in our concept of the world. To modify our concept of the world is to modify the world for us, or simply to modify the world, since it will never be, for us, anything but what it is for us.