Quotes About Belief

It's a fact. I can't get faith or enthusiasm by willing it. Deciding to.

I've read the Cosmic Trigger and Robert Anton Wilson says

The deeds of the heroes, in the sacred dream-time...the only time, according to the bushmen, that was real.

This guy—Joe whatever—hasn't even got the right expression on his face; he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith. Yes, that's how they are. They're not idealists like Joe and me; they're cynics with utter faith.

Mercerism is a swindle.' The whole experience of empathy is a swindle.

God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit. Or all three. He's evil, dumb, and weak.

Realidade é aquela coisa que não desaparece quando você deixa de acreditar nela.

É incrível que, quando mais alguém começa a botar pra fora as besteiras em que você próprio acredita, você consegue perceber imediatamente como elas não fazem o menor sentido.

What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.

The little man with beard and glasses leaped up. 'There's nobody here has anything to do with governments! We're all good people!

The gentle sounds of the choir singing "Amen, amen" are not to calm the congregation but to pacify the god.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

I don't believe in God," Kevin said. "I believe in the Great Punta. And the ways of the Great Punta are mysterious. No one knows why he does what he does, or doesn't do." "Are you kidding me?" "No," Kevin said. "Where did the Great Punta come from?" "Only the Great Punta knows.

Apuesto a que te dijo que fue el destino el que te trajo aquí, ¿verdad? Creen que son peones en manos de seres superiores, cuando en realidad son peones en manos de sus propias subconscientes, que se han desbocado.

Even if one person finds a way, it means there is a way.

Siempre he creído que al menos la mitad de los personajes famosos de la historia no han existido.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

O s? cred ce vreau eu s? cred, iar tu crezi ce vrei. De acord?

And yet, even if one person finds his way . . . that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

Weltanschauung.

But it if was helping him, what would the criterion be? I mean, you know, if he only dreamed that he heard a voice telling him what to do, how to do it, this is a phantasm of his own mind. And yet, if the results are the same … It raises … Oddly enough, Paul, you'll be amazed to discover that I tend to want to treat the questionness of what is real.

A myth can be picked up by a whole society, believed and taught to the next generation. Gods, fairies, witches—believing a thing doesn't make it true. For centuries, Terrans believed the Earth was flat.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness.

Sometimes I think God is just the devil pretending to be nice.