Quotes About Belief

Ils croyaient qu'un jour ou l'autre, cela arriverait, parce qu'ils avaient attendu toute une vie pour cela et qu'ils pensaient le mériter. Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

Quelle drôle d'idée. Croire en Dieu. On ne pouvait pas croire en Dieu quand on jouait à la cesta punta. Ni quand on traitait toute l'année avec la souffrance et la maladie, ou qu'à la maison le suicide était un sport national, et qu'en guise de complies, on allait se recueillir régulièrement devant un petit ex-voto formolé de Joseph Staline.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out.

To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe.

If God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour.

You believe that you believe, but you don't believe.

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Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.

In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creatives a positive object but it has no being other than its nothingness.

Gesti, gesti, piccole distruzioni, che cosa significano, io ho creduto che questa fosse la libertà.

Faith, even when profound, is never complete. It has to be endlessly sustained or, at least, preserved from destruction.

You might think that there's some authority you could look for to answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

You might think that there's some authority you could look to for answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

Quand une fois la liberté a explosé dans une âme d'homme, les Dieux ne peuvent plus rien contre cet homme-là. Car c'est une affaire d'homme, et c'est aux autres hommes — à eux seuls — qu'il appartient de le laisser courir ou de l'étrangler.

Les grandes personnes, établies dans mon âme, montraient du doigt mon étoile; je ne la voyais pas mais je voyais le doigt, je croyais en elles qui prétendaient croire en moi.

Êtes-vous si fort dans l'art de la dispute? demanda le curé, vous l'emportez sur les nôtres ! Je n'ai pas disputé, répondit M. de Rollebon, je lui ai fait peur de l'enfer.