Quotes About Belief

Je puis me persuader d'avoir été fait tel par la nature que je puisse aisément me tromper même dans les choses que je crois comprendre avec le plus d'évidence et de certitude.

we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.

c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)

Nothing can be imagined which is too strange or incredible to have been said by some philosopher.

Right understanding is the most equally divided thing in the World; for every one beleevs himself so well stor'd with it, that even those who in all other things are the hardest to be pleas'd, seldom desire more of it then they have; wherein it is not likely that all Men are deceived:

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree, y por lo tanto muchas veces se encuentra aquél sin éste.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify—and burn.

I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

Var olan evcil domuzlar?n?za boyun e?in siz. Var olmayan tanr?lar?m?n yolundan gidece?im ben. ?nsan kalaca??z biz ba???lanmazl?k pahas?na.

On ne se bat bien que pour les causes qu'on modèle soi-même et avec lesquelles on se brûle en s'identifiant.

It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They deify their victims.

But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.

Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.

Human culture is fundamentally and originally religious, rather than secondarily and supplementally.

He exclaims, "Happy is the one not scandalized by me." There will be throughout Christian history a tendency of Christians themselves to choose Jesus as an alternative scandal, that is, a tendency to lose themselves and merge into the mob of persecutors. For St. Paul, consequently, the Cross is the scandal par excellence. I would observe that the symbolism of the traditional cross, the crossing of the two branches, renders visible the internal contradiction of the scandal. The

Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural fields seem inexhaustible from within. Anything that compromises this illusion terrifies us and stirs up the immemorial tendency to persecution.

It sometimes so happens that people who imagine that they are fighting the devil, whatever their particular notion of the devil may be, are thus turned, without any suspicion of the fact on their part, into his best servants!