Quotes About Belief

Non conta la fede che un movimento propone, conta la speranza che offre. Gratta l'eresia, troverai il lebbroso. E ogni battaglia contro l'eresia vuole solo che il lebbroso rimanga lebbroso.

Las herejías son siempre expresión del hecho concreto de que existen excluidos.

But when I told him that these lords hoped to find the "truffle" underground, to eat it, he thought I had said they were seeking "der Teufel," the Devil, and he blessed himself devoutly, looking at me in amazement.

No es que el incrédulo no deba creer en nada. No cree en todo. Cree en una cosa cada vez, y en una segunda cuando deriva de alguna manera de la primera. Avanza como un miope, es metódico, no aventura horizontes. Dos cosas no relacionadas entre sí, creer en las dos, y con la idea de que, en algún lugar, haya una tercera, oculta, que las vincula, esto es la credulidad.

If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.

So must we then read books without faith, which is a theological virtue?" "There are two other theological virtues as well. The hope that the possible is. And charity, toward those who believed in good faith that the possible was.

Anything was possible if the impossible was true.

Qué pensaba yo en realidad hace quince años? Consciente de mi incredulidad me sentía culpable entre la multitud de los que creían. Puesto que sentía que no se equivocaban, decidí creer como quien se toma una aspirina. Daño no hace, y uno mejora.

Saul Bellow escribió una vez que, en una época de locura, creerse inmunes a la locura es una forma de locura.

Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.

Ruh yaln?z gerçeÄŸi düÅŸünürken dingindir; iyi iÅŸlerden sevinç duyar; gerçeÄŸe ve iyi ÅŸeylereyse gülünmez. Ä°sa'n?n gülmeyiÅŸinin nedeni buydu iÅŸte. Gülme kuÅŸkunun k??k?rt?c?s?d?r.' 'Ama kimi zaman kuÅŸkulanmak doÄŸrudur.

The polemical title is "The Force of Falsity," and in the lecture I wanted to show how a number of ideas that today we consider false actually changed the world (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse) and how, in the best instances, false beliefs and discoveries totally without credibility could then lead to the discovery of something true (or at least something we consider true today). In the field of the sciences, this mechanism is known as serendipity.

Such is the power of the truth that, like good, it is its own propagator

Superstition brings bad luck. —Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers.

Afirmar la absoluta omnipotencia de Dios y su absoluta disponibilidad con respecto a sus propias opciones, ¿no equivale a demostrar que Dios no existe?

Sapk?nl???n yan?lg?s? buradad?r. Bir ak?m?n sunduÄŸu inanc?n önemi yoktur; önemli olan sunduÄŸu umuttur.

Elie Wiesel used to say that those who believed that all things are permitted were not those who believed that God was dead, but those who thought they were God (a shortcoming common to dictators great and small).

That must be it, you were compassionate about the little things and cynical about the big things.

Deccal dindarl???n kendisinden, a??r? Tanr? ya da gerçek sevgisinden doÄŸabilir; t?pk? bir sapk?n?n bir azizden, bir cinçarpm???n bir yalvaçtan doÄŸmas? gibi.

Somos nós que, diante dos opostos, acreditamos, conforme o nosso desejo, e a nossa paixão, que um deles seja o bem e o outro o mal.

Bir kez daha birinin, 'Ne yap?yorsun, niçin ölüyorsun?' diye ba??rd???n? iÅŸittim. 'Ä°çimdeki bir gerçek için; onu ancak ölümle kan?tlayabilirim,' diye yan?tlad?.

Evo zašto mi se dopada ova mašina - glupa je, ne veruje, ne tera me da verujem, radi ono što joj kažem, ako sam ja glup, glupa je i ona ili on. To je pošten odnos.

the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself