Quotes About Belief

Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

Two hundred years ago it was permissible to trust in the future without being totally stupid. But today, who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday's splendid future?

Every individual with "ideals" is a potential murderer.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.

Just as dangerous as believing the desirable to be possible is believing the possible to be desirable. Sentimental utopias and automatisms of technology.

A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.

Intelligent optimism is never faith in progress, but hope in a miracle. How can anyone live who does not hope for miracles?

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

Dehellenizing Christianity turns it into a sect.

It is easy to believe that we partake of certain virtues when we share in the defects they imply.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.

Jongeren zijn niet per se revolutionair, maar noodzakelijk dogmatisch.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

Each one of a science's successive orthodoxies appears to be the definitive truth to the disciple.

No pertenezco a un mundo que perece. Prolongo y transmito una verdad que no muere.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

Im Universum gibt es Inseln der Ordnung. Aber die angebliche Ordnung des Universums ist ein ideologisches Artefakt.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

The Marxist has no doubt about the perversity of his adversary. The reactionary merely suspects that his adversary is stupid.

Mensch ohne Vorurteile bedeutet gewöhnlich Mensch ohne Geistigkeit. Vorurteile, Aberglauben, Skrupel sind Keime des Geistes, der in einfachen Seelen sprießt. Mit ihnen aufzuräumen, um von den Seelen die Last zu nhmen, die "den freien Ausdruck des Geistes erstickt", begünstigt lediglich die Erosion dieser armen Boden.