Quotes About Belief

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

Remember the dead do not eat actual solid food, any more than the gods do. They eat the spirit of the food. The priests say a picture of food, or words describing food are as tasty and pleasing as the real thing, to a dead person.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.

Man has not really vanquished shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghost or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit

Our athiests are pious people.

To the believer, truths are a settled thing, a fact; to the freethinker, a thing that is still to be settled.

Alles Heilige ist ein Band, eine Fessel.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Everything is a spook

No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!

Aus fixen Ideen entstehen die Verbrechen.

Das Konzept Gottes geworden in Anatolien und wurde dem Westen auferlegt.

Cada persona tiene que conocer cuál es el dios o el demonio que maneja los hilos de su vida.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

All the great religious doctrines of Asia are creations of intellectuals.

Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.