Quotes About Belief

A lie travels farther than the truth.

I've known for ages that men and women are animals by nature, I've also known that we have a sacred duty to make something different of ourselves, and I still believe that we have the strength and the chance to be more than we are. Through ourselves? Despite ourselves? Doesn't matter, I still believe…

Was man glaubt, gibt es.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn't believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived

What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens. [They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

he who lives on hope will die fasting—

Lourdes in Nevers,

God Was Here but He Left Early

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centures since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

I suppose he's entitled to his opinion, but I don't suppose it very hard.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.