Quotes About Belief

Comme un fou se croit Dieu, nous nous croyons mortels.

I don't think in any language. I think in images. I don't believe that people think in languages. They don't move their lips when they think. It is only a certain type of illiterate person who moves his lips as he reads or ruminates. No, I think in images, and now and then a Russian phrase or an English phrase will form with the foam of the brainwave, but that's about all.

Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.

No free man needs a God; but was I free?

I am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.

I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip.

There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really mine, it belongs to strangers, to all men; it is soaked through by the evil-smelling effluvia of millions of other souls that have spun about a little under the sun and then burst…

Once we deny a Higher Intelligence that plans and administrates our individual hereafters we are bound to accept the unspeakably dreadful notion of Chance reaching into Eternity.

Bueno, algún día, si quieres venirte a vivir conmigo… Crearé un nuevo Dios y le agradeceré con gritos desgarradores si me das una esperanza microscópica.

To love with all one's soul and leave the rest to fate, was the simple rule she heeded.

A környezetváltozás olyan hagyományos téveszme, melybe tönkrement szerelemek és tüdÅ'k vetik bizalmukat.

Mas o amor, dizia ele, era tudo menos credível, a vida real era ridícula, os labregos riam-se do amor.

A wonderful point in favor of some kind of hereafter is this: When the mind rejects as childishly absurd a paradise with musical angels or abstract colonnades with Horace and Milton in togas conversing and walking together through the eternal twilight, or the protracted voluptas of the orient or any other eternity -- such as the one with devils and porcupines -- we forget that if we could have imagined life before living it would have seemed more improbable than all our hereafters

Being mad, he failed to take into account the scheming of irresponsible politicians. Being mad, he believed that other governments would act in accordance with the principles of mercy and common sense.

am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.

I will create a brand new god and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope.

Oh, to shout it so that all of you believe me at last, you cruel, smug people...

She wrote poetry. She was poetically superstitious. She said she knew she would die soon after my sixteenth birthday, and did.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me;

Como suele ocurrir con muchas personas que no se preocupan por la religión en su vida habitual, inventé rápidamente un Dios suave, tierno, lacrimoso, y susurré una plegaria personal. Permíteme llegar a tiempo, permítele resistir hasta que llegue, permítele decirme su secreto.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand. Research in neuroscience and cognitive science shows that people remember and respond most effectively to what they see and experience: "Seeing is believing." In the realm of experience, positive stimuli reinforce behavior, whereas negative stimuli change attitudes and behavior. Simply

Unless people believe that the strategic challenge is attainable, the change is not likely to succeed.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.