Quotes About Belief

it seems to me that the merit of any belief can be judged by the lengths people go to defend it. Poor, incomprehensible beliefs demand rigorous support. Defying reason and experience, they require the muscle of state and religion to maintain. Conversely, when a belief is so observably and obviously true, when it resonates with our experience, when it transcends cultures and eras, it requires no defense.

Crowley also suggested that,

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

I believe that in my generation, the belief in a platonic mathematics has often been a substitute religion for people who have abandoned or even rejected traditional religions. Where can certainty be found in a chaotic universe that often seems meaningless? Mathematics has often been claimed to be the sole source of absolute certainty.

Not to know but to believe that one knows is a disease.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.

Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is -- 'tis her shadow.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.

Hmm. That's what I suspected, you mad bastard.

the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

A essência do engano não é a mentira que se diz, mas as verdades que se contam para a apoiar.

Je ne suis pas un nazi. Je suis un Allemand. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Un Allemand est un homme qui arrive à surmonter ses pires préjugés. Un nazi, quelqu'un qui les change en lois. (Hôtel Adlon - If The Dead Rise Not)

Can you imagine how much of existence would be impossible if people didn't believe in a certain amount of luck in the face of all evidence to the contrary? The true essence of human life is delusion. That's what we've got in here. And it's been that way ever since the first Roman soldier blew on a handful of dice. It's simple human nature to believe your luck is going to turn.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

give me faith not religion...

Can you ground your faith on such impossibilities?