Quotes About Belief

Sarà più difficile per noi abbattere il muro che abbiamo in testa che per una impresa demolitrice distruggere quello vero.

We're all optimists in our profession or we'd be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Look! Life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

The Devil isn't made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

Finding Nemo would, of course, become another huge Pixar hit, validating Ed Catmull's belief that it's better to fix problems than prevent errors.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

the joys of a liberality that still appreciates the living plural and the inviolable legitimacy of doxa (meaning "common belief," from dokei moi: "it seems to me"); articulating the human right of each person to his or her own point of view.

P]eople keep believing everywhere else, but in our society we have glorified disillusionment. Indeed, why should Europeans be the only ones on a metaphysical diet when the rest of the world continues to dine unperturbed at the richly decked tables of illusion?

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.

Una de las ironías de las religiones en la Modernidad es que incluso hacen de lo absoluto una opción. Incluso aquellos que luchan por lograr la ortodoxia no escapan al imperativo herético, porque la verdadera creencia también depende de una elección (hairesis) a su favor.

mundo quiere ser engañado".

I am absolutely a believer. Faith and life are synonymous functions. If you don't believe, you can't finish a sentence, for example. Speechlessness is the clearest sign of depression. In this respect, depression and disbelief converge.

Sei bitte nicht naiv. Dieses Land ist so alt oder so jung wie alle anderen." "Aber hier habe ich das Gefühl, dass noch alles möglich ist.

Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I'm telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.