Quotes About Belief

But for Aristotle the meaning was hidden in the particulars of experience. The scope of his work was itself witness to his belief in the unity of experience and his confidence that it could somehow be encompassed by the human mind. And so he confirms his axiom that the actuality of thought is life.

Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or "pan-agnostic" bubble, where we refuse to face these paramount issues. The truth matters, and the consequences of not possessing it are unstoppable, and often destructive (whether we can see the harm or not). It is even a greater moral imperative to sort through the issues that have a serious impact on us, either individually or socially.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

He wished me luk. I hope I have luk. I got my rabits foot and my luky penny and my horshoe. Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont know what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its something that helps you have good luk.

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood

Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

And they talked about politics and art and God. I never before heard anyone say that there might not be a God. That frightened me, because for the first time I began to think about what God means. Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

Agora entendo que um dos motivos importantes para ir à universidade e obter uma educação é aprender que as coisas em que você acreditou a vida toda não são verdade, e nada é o que parece ser

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Authority could derive from passion, not pieces of paper.

The Oriental (-Turkish) name Stamboul is a corruption of Islam = "true belief" and bul = "a mass or abundance.

culture. A culture is a people enacting a story." "A people enacting a story. And a story again is …?" "A scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods." "Okay. So you're saying that the people of my culture are enacting their own story about man, the world, and the gods." "That's right.

All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless.

Your sufferings must be borne, for you suffer in the cause of good. See how great we have become! ...Though your groans fill the air, isn't it sweeter to live in our own hands than in the hands of the gods?

Even the most fundamental of the fundamentalists plug their ears when Jesus starts talking about birds of the air and lilies of the field. They know damn well he's just yarning, just making pretty speeches.

We don't want to know a way to live that works well. We want to know the one right way.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.

shattered for all time a complex of fundamental articles of our cultural faith: that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it;