Quotes About Belief

This is not just primitive rural superstition; [juju] is practiced by all kinds of people, from illiterate herd boys to multi-dregreed university professors. If you don't understand the power of this belief, you will never truly grasp the rich albeit often incomprehensible spirituality of Africa.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Where sanity is there God is.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

It is as well to avoid illusions of control, but in the end all we can do is act as if we can influence events. To do otherwise is to succumb to fatalism.

Durante los años noventa el relato era un requisito imprescindible para cualquier proyecto político: y el relato consistía en explicar por qué un movimiento político o un partido merecía tomarse en serio y por qué valía la pena creer y difundir sus mensajes esenciales.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

situarse en el ámbito del Sistema 2, pero ha de entenderse sobre todo como la capacidad para elaborar y convertir en argumentos persuasivos lo que esencialmente es Sistema 1.

Lawrence Freedman

Un famoso pasaje bíblico apunta que «la carrera no la gana el más ágil, ni la batalla el más fuerte».[3] El escritor americano Damon Runyon añadió: «Pero yo apostaría por ellos».

you choose to believe what you want, and you choose to do what you do. First comes life, then comes law. You are still responsible. You cannot hide behind anything. Since when does religious tradition permit you to short-circuit any morally uncomfortable decision?

I have just bought into the delusion that these toys are real. And now I'm believing that this one toy, Buzz Lightyear, is himself delusional for not realizing he is just a toy. This was insane.

Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit.

He could easily invent an elaborate, plausible universe. But it is one thing to make that universe believable, and another to believe it. That is the difference between art and religion.

What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data on you and command you to believe it or else. If it is not true for you, it isn't true. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest. There is nothing unhappier than one who tries to live in a chaos of lies.