Quotes About Belief

Pues bien, mi señor creador don Miguel, ¡también usted se morirá, también usted, y se volverá ala nada de que salió...! ¡Dios dejará de soñarle! ¡Se morirá usted, sí, se morirá, aunque no lo quiera; se morirá usted y se morirán todos los que lean mi historia.

Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe inGod but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair, even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

No, no es que me miró, es que me envolvió en su mirada; y no es que creí en Dios, sino que me creí un dios

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

Não acredito em Alá mas senti, já muitas vezes, a força da sua crença nas sombras do palmar de Tamanrasset, no som a dágua correndo, como se fosse um milagre, no oásis de Targhit ou nos azulejos verdes do Alhambra.

Luís Bernardo estava petrificado pela beleza e pelo pavor daquele espetáculo: tivessem-lhe dito que o mundo inteiro já acabar naquele instante, e ele teria acreditado.

Nada é eterno nem adquirido, tudo é fugaz e passageiro. A ilusão - seja a de felicidade ou a de tristeza - é acreditar num horizonte fechado, ao alcance da vista, que ignora ou finge ignorar os horizontes sucessivos que estão para além do imediato.

vencereís pero no convencereís

Cel mai mare sprijin trebuie sa-l asteptam de la Dumnezeu.

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories of the ideas that mattered most to our ancestors, and to ignore them is an act of childish conceit. But it is equally naive to believe that whatever was written down in the past contains an absolute truth that lasts forever.

Whenever the outside world offers no mercy, an internal symbolic system can become a salvation.

If we assume, however, that the desire to achieve optimal experience is the foremost goal of every human being, the difficulties of interpretation raised by cultural relativism become less severe. Each social system can then be evaluated in terms of how much psychic entropy it causes, measuring that disorder not with reference to the ideal order of one or another belief system, but with reference to the goals of the members of that society.

So to extract meaning from a system of beliefs a person must first compare the information contained in it with his or her concrete experience, retain what makes sense, and then reject the rest.

Dante recognized that every system of spiritual order, when it becomes incorporated into a worldly structure like an organized church, begins to suffer the effects of entropy. So to extract meaning from a system of beliefs a person must first compare the information contained in it with his or her concrete experience, retain what makes sense, and then reject the rest.

When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

But the true believer is not really interacting with the belief system; he usually lets his psychic energy be absorbed by it. From this submission nothing new can come; consciousness may attain a welcome order, but it will be an order imposed rather than achieved.

whenever a culture has had a run of good luck and for a while seems indeed to have found a way of controlling the forces of nature. At that point it is logical for it to begin believing that it is a chosen people who need no longer fear any major setback. The

Unselfconscious self-assurance. [...] one common attitude shared by such people was the implicit belief that their destiny was in their hands.

Unselfconscious self-assurance. [...] one common attitude shared by such people was the implicit belief that their destiny was in their hands. [...] This attitude occurs when a person no longer sees himself in opposition to the environment, as an individual who insists that his goals, his intentions take precedence over everything else.