Quotes About Belief

Senin kurallar?n" dedi Revell, "Kendi kurallar?nda kaybedeceksin. Kara kutunun beni durduraca??n? söylüyorsun ve bu kara kutu benim ben olmam? engelleyecek demek. Ben yanl?? olduÄŸunu söylüyorum. Ben terk ettikçe senin kaybettiÄŸini söylüyorum ve eÄŸer kara kutu beni öldürürse, sonsuza dek sen kaybedersin.

For there are two distinct religions, "one good if the other fails," in La Romagna, and many still believe that that of the spirits, or ancient gods, is, on the whole, the most to be relied

Those who are horrified at Mr. Darwin's theory, may comfort themselves with the assurance that, if we are descended from the ape, we have not descended so far as to preclude all hope of return.

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.

Go put your creed into your deed...

'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.

Live truth instead of professing it.

We are accused, furthermore, of having ideals. Well, every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Intuition, my trustworthy friend...

Let us still believe that the nerves proceed from the heart, and not from the brain, and that the heart is the seat of consciousness, and that the ring-finger is (as Aulus Gellius asserts) in the most direct communication with it!

Although I myself, due doubtless to defective skill, have to work pretty hard, I do not believe in too hard work... A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life!

My karma ran over your dogma.

In old times the lady-bird was believed to live in the sun, and the German children still have a rhyme telling it to fly away up to heaven and bring back the sunshine; and they believe that if they were to kill one of these insects the sun would not shine the next day.

She did not believe in happy endings... not anymore. There were no endings in life except death. There was only the present moment, the passage of breath into breath, action and reaction, word after word, a story that was still being told.

...but a skepticism pointing to the past for its confirmation whispers to us that metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

Love is my religion — I could die for that.

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.

God is real, unless declared integer.

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom...

The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith.

You can fool some of the people some of the time... But you can't fool Mom!