Quotes About Belief

It just wasn't possible to make him accept a reality different from his own.

The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer.

Of course, if I chose to be an optimist, there was always the possibility that, if our two parallels continued to infinity, the moment would come when they would touch.

If this is what you believe, you are wrong: Penthesilea

If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop.

If you choose to believe me, good.

without ever knowing what he believed in, but trying to believe firmly until the last.

Mientras sé que en el mundo hay alguien que hace juegos de prestidigitación solo por amor al juego, mientras sé que hay una mujer que ama la lectura por la lectura, puedo convencerme de que el mundo continúa.

I don't know if you believe in the Spirit, sir. I believe in it. I believe in the dialogue that the Spirit conducts uninterruptedly with itself.

hasta que murió, sin haber comprendido, tras una vida entera dedicada a la fe, en qué creía, pero tratando de creer firmemente en ello hasta el final.

On the day when I know all the emblems," he asked Marco, "shall I be able to possess my empire, at last?" And the Venetian answered: "Sire, do not believe it. On that day you will be an emblem among emblems.

L'Abate passò il resto dei suoi giorni tra carcere e convento in continui atti d'abiura, finché non morì, senza aver capito, dopo una vita intera dedicata alla fede, in che cosa mai credesse, ma cercando di credervi fermamente fino all'ultimo.

Qualcosa che ci sfugge deve pur restare... Perche' il potere abbia un oggetto su cui esercitarsi, uno spazio in cui allungare le sue braccia... Finche' so che al mondo c'e' qualcuno che fa dei giochi di prestigio solo per amore del gioco, finche' so che c'e' una donna che ama la lettura per la lettura, posso convincermi che il mondo continua... E ogni sera m'abbandono alla lettura, come quella lontana lettrice sconosciuta.

é un modo comodo di vivere quello di credersi grande di una grandezza latente.

Per me i miracoli esistono e non esistono. Non bisogna complicarli con troppe storie. Bisogna crederci o non crederci ed in ambedue i casi le cose sono molto semplici.

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.

True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times...if only rarely...you cannot do without.

Trust your ability!

Every one is right in there mind.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.