Quotes About Belief

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

They're only words, unless they're true.