Quotes About Belief

Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances.

Mant???n evrensel bir silah olduÄŸuna inanm??t?m her zaman; ÅŸimdiyse mant???n geçerliÄŸinin onun nas?l kullan?ld???na baÄŸl? olduÄŸunun bilincine var?yordum.

To All the World: I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of solid, concentric spheres; one within the other, and that it is open at the poles twelve or sixteen degrees. —J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, late Captain of Infantry, April 10, 1818; quoted in Sprague de Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond, New York, Rinehart, 1952, x

Visionaries see only what their culture has taught them to see and allows them to imagine.

which reminds me of a saying attributed to Arthur Rubenstein: 'Do you believe in God? No, I believe in something much greater.' The best way we can manage to imagine in trying to conceive of God is the classic night in which all cows are black.

False tales are, first of all, tales, and tales, like myths, are always persuasive.

Ma insieme, l'eredità ermetica e quella gnostica producono la sindrome del segreto. Se l'iniziato è colui che comprende il segreto cosmico, allora le degenerazioni del modello ermetico hanno condotto alla convinzione che il potere consista nel persuadere gli altri che si è in possesso di un segreto politico. Secondo

The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What

The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square. This is what their enemies exploit.

Svestan da ne verujem, ose?ao sam krivicu što svi oko mene veruju. Pošto sam ose?ao da su u pravu, odlu?io sam da i sam po?nem da verujem, i to onako kako se pije aspirin. Ne škodi, a bude nam bolje.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

Antychryst mo?e zrodzi? siÄ™ z pobo?noÅ›ci, z nadmiernej miÅ'oÅ›ci do Boga lub prawdy, jak kacerz rodzi siÄ™ ze Å›wiÄ™tego, a opÄ™tany przez demona z jasnowidzÄ…cego. LÄ™kaj siÄ™, Adso, proroków i tych, którzy gotowi sÄ… umrze? za prawdÄ™, gdy? zwykle pociÄ…gajÄ… za sobÄ… Å›mier? licznych, czÄ™sto przed sobÄ…, czasem zamiast siebie.

O sea que, después de una vida de incertidumbres, entusiasmos y desilusiones, de vileza y de traición, al ver que ya nada podía hacer para evitar su ruina, decidía abrazar la fe de su juventud, sin seguir preguntándose si ésta era justa o equivocada, como si quisiera mostrarse a sí mismo que era capaz de creer en algo.

Una guerra santa sigue siendo una guerra.

Huye, Adso, de los profetas y de los que están dispuestos a morir por la verdad, porque suelen provocar también la muerte de muchos otros, a menudo antes que la propia, y a veces en lugar de la propia.

Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.

Han sido legiones los que se han preguntado si Cristo rió. El asunto no me interesa demasiado. Creo que nunca rió porque, como hijo de Dios, era omnisciente y sabía lo que haríamos los cristianos.

Cu cât îmb?trânesc, cu atât m? las mai mult în voia lui Dumnezeu, ÅŸi preÅ£uiesc tot mai puÅ£in inteligenÅ£a care vrea s? ÅŸtie ÅŸi voinÅ£a care vrea s? fac?; ÅŸi recunosc ca singur? cale spre mântuire credinÅ£a, care ÅŸtie s? aÅŸtepte cu r?bdare, f?r? s? întrebe prea mult.

Es un círculo diabólico en el que el contestatario potencia aquello que cree destruir.

Let us forget for a moment that some of these false tales produced positive effects, while others produced horror and shame. All created something, for better or worse. Nothing in their success is inexplicable. What represents a problem is rather the way they managed to replace other tales that today we consider true.

For what I was to see at the abbey would make me think that it is often inquisitors who create heretics.

Sería atroz —comentó Guillermo— matar a un hombre para decir Credo in unum Deum…

Por todo lo cual, estaba reflexionando que, si a veces la religión es o ha sido el opio del pueblo, quizá más a menudo ha sido su cocaína

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything... He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.