Quotes About Belief

Despair is infidelity and death.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

In death, hope is everlasting.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted.

I'll take your case, son. I believe in your innocence no less than my own." "Thanks, man. You a lawyer?" "No, a Hindu. And you?" "I'm Jewish. But I studied Buddhism.

but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities

Peirce's foundational, scientific metaphysics accordingly begins with phenomenology, the way things are presented to us in experience. He is particularly concerned with the difference between belief and doubt.

How you think matters more than what you think

Consensus is not always good; disagreement not always bad. If you do happen to agree, don't take that agreement—in itself—as proof that you are right. Never stop doubting.

The one undeniable talent that talking heads have is their skill at telling a compelling story with conviction, and that is enough.