Quotes About Conviction

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace.

To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty.

But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

There is a point in every philosophy at which the conviction of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeated, our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad...

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you.

Not doubt, CERTAINTY is what drives one insane

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity.

It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

They would have to sing better songs to make me believe in their Redeemer; his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It

Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult

The submission to Christianity on the part of master races is essentially the result of the conviction that Christianity is a religion for the herd, that it teaches obedience: in short, that Christians are more easily ruled than non-Christians. With a hint of this nature, the Pope, even nowadays, recommends Christian propaganda to the ruling Sovereign of China.

And when a person goeth through fire for his teaching -- what doth that prove! It is more, verily, when out of one's own burning cometh one's own teaching!