Quotes About Belief

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

W]ir dürfen ... ruhig sagen, daß allen großen Gestaltungen des Mitlebens der Menschen ein Wahn vorgeleuchtet hat, daß die Menschen immer nur durch Wahn aneinander gebunden waren, daß immer nur der Wahn die Individuen zu höheren Organisationsformen und Gesamtheiten aufgebaut hat.

Everyone says its a myth until one day something happens in the streets that brings it back to life.

No es posible que haya un "viento" incomprensible e invisible que nos llevara de un lado para otro, y determinara nuestras acciones, mientras que nosotros, en nuestra simpleza, creemos vivir bajo nuestra propia y libre voluntad?

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief

How numerous are the crowds that have heroically faced death for beliefs, ideas, and phrases that they scarcely understood!

The philosophic absurdity that often marks general beliefs has never been an obstacle to their triumph. Indeed the triumph of such beliefs would seem impossible unless on the condition that they offer some mysterious absurdity.

The power of crowds is to be dreaded, but the power of certain castes is to be dreaded yet more. Crowds are open to conviction; castes never are.

No se trata de supersticiones de otra época definitivamente expulsadas por la razón. En su eterna lucha contra la razón, el sentimiento no ha sido jamás vencido. Las masas no quieren escuchar ya las palabras divinidad y religión que las han dominado durante tanto tiempo; pero ninguna época las ha visto elevar tantas estatuas y altares como desde hace un siglo.

Las masas no tienen jamás sed de verdades. Ante las evidencias que las desagradan, se apartan, prefiriendo divinizar al error, si el error las seduce. Quien sabe ilusionarlas se convierte fácilmente en su amo; el que intenta desilusionarlas es siempre su víctima.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question. Every general belief being little else than a fiction, it can only survive on the condition that it be not subjected to examination.

?üphesiz kalabal?klar, bir inanc?n yahut bir fikrin zaferi için kolayca canlar?n? fedaya kadar gidebilirler. Hemen hemen ekmeksiz ve silahs?z olarak Haçl? Seferleri esnas?nda oldu?u gibi, bir ilah?n mezar?n? tekrar ele geçirmek için, yahut 93'te oldu?u gibi vatan topraklar?n? savunmak için, harekete getirilirler. Elbette bu kahramanl?klar biraz ?uursuzdur, fakat tarih böyle kahramanl?klarla yap?l?r.

Ng??i ta ?ã xây d?ng nhi?u ??n ?ài, nhi?u t??ng, nhi?u bàn th? nh?t cho nh?ng ng??i sáng t?o ra các ?o t??ng.(...) Không có ?o t??ng, con ng??i s? không th? thoát ra kh?i tình tr?ng dã man nguyên th?y, và n?u không còn chúng, con ng??i s? s?m r?i vào tình tr?ng ?y.

While all our ancient beliefs are tottering and disappearing, while the old pillars of society are giving way one by one, the power of the crowd is the only force that nothing menaces, and of which the prestige is continually on the increase. The age we are about to enter will in truth be the ERA OF CROWDS.

The dogmas whose birth we are witnessing will soon have the force of the old dogmas; that is to say, the tyrannical and sovereign force of being above discussion. The divine right of the masses is about to replace the divine right of kings.

history is scarcely capable of preserving the memory of anything except myths.

The crowd demands a god before everything else.

Believers always break the statues of their former gods with every symptom of fury.

Even revolutions can only avail when the belief has almost entirely lost its sway over men's minds. In that case revolutions serve to finally sweep away what had already been almost cast aside, though the force of habit prevented its complete abandonment. The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

Les foules n'ont jamais eu soif de vérités. Devant les évidences qui leur déplaisent, elles se détournent, préférant déifier l'erreur, si l'erreur les séduit. Qui sait les illusionner est aisément leur maître; qui tente de les désillusionner est toujours leur victime.