Quotes About Belief

Wir können, was wir sehen, noch nicht glauben. Was wir schon glauben, nicht aussprechen.

no lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it.

Alors que les hommes généralement se contentent de croire, les philosophes veulent savoir ; mais, pour savoir, il faut juger, critiquer, mesurer, exclure, imaginer, bref effectuer un travail de l'esprit dont les religions et les idéologies permettent l'économie.

La religion est, aux yeux de Lucrèce, une superstition qui plonge les hommes dans l'angoisse et le désespoir. La philosophie, elle, a une fonction libératrice.

Spinoza - la fonction de l'État est de garantir aux individus la liberté de leurs cultes et de leurs croyances sans en privilégier aucun ni aucune parmi eux.

You broke the bonds and you loosed the chains, carried the cross, all my shame, all my shame, you know I believe it.

Some sacred projects are so doggedly committed to advancing their particular, packaged views of believed orthodoxies that they can become blinded to good evidence that problematizes their truth-packages and intolerant of other people whom they believe impede their sacred missions.

We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us." Mark Twain, Following the Equator

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. —Albert Einstein

My actions should depend on what I know, not what I suspect.

It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself

I will never, ever stop hoping for peace,' he said. His voice trembled with leashed emotion. 'I have seen too much good in too many people to paint them all as evil and worthy of slaughter. And I will also never stop believing that people can change. But I realize now that I've been like a farmer expecting to harvest crops from a poisoned field. It's simply not possible' . . . 'People can change,' Anduin repeated. 'But some people will never- never -desire to do so.

Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply cherished grievances.

We could still have it.

I will never, ever stop hoping for peace, he said. His voice trembled with leashed emotion. I have seen too much good in too many people to paint them all as evil and worthy of slaughter. And I will also never stop believing that people can change. But I realize now that I've been like a farmer expecting to harvest crops from a poisoned field. It's simply not possible . . . People can change, Anduin repeated. But some people will never- never -desire to do so.

We all need someone," de Metz said. "Even—perhaps especially—if we have God.

It was never a big leap from unfamiliar to suspected

Christie Golden

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Elizabeth understood as she never had before. Everyone, all of them had lived secure in the belief that the earth was stable, unchanging, eternal. Now no one could trust the ground beneath their feet. Yes, the earthquake was the story of destruction, but not just of things. An earthquake destroyed security. It destroyed complacency. It changed the people who lived through it.

Because when I pray, I say your name first, and I say your name last. When I breathe, I breathe for you. Every kind thing I say, every good thing I do, I do because I know you're in the world and I...I love you.

I don't know my place in the bigger scheme of things, but I do know I'm here on this earth for a reason, and I never make the mistake of thinking that what I do is trivial. I trust in myself. I am important.

If he says there's nothing wrong with them, then there most certainly is something wrong with them.

You know, Guinevere Mary, the kind of woman you could be, and I know it, too. And I won't be satisfied until you are." Her