Quotes About Questioning

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?

A. Was I ill? Have I got well? Who was my doctor? Can you tell? Oh, my memory is rotten! B. Only now you're truly well. Those are well who have forgotten.

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.

of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.

L'ateismo, per me, non è un risultato, e tanto meno un avvenimento - come tale non lo conosco: io lo intendo per istinto. Sono troppo curioso, troppo problematico, troppo tracotante, perché possa piacermi una risposta grossolana. Dio è una risposta grossolana, un'indelicatezza verso noi pensatori - in fondo è solo un grossolano divieto che ci viene fatto: non dovete pensare!

I pray God to deliver me from God !

Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?

Au existat pân? acum o mie de scopuri, c?ci au existat o mie de popoare. Doar lanÅ£ul pe cele-o mie de capete lipseÅŸte, lipseÅŸte înc? un singur scop. Umanitatea n-are înc? scop. Dar spuneÅ£i-mi, voi, fraÅ£i ai mei: dac? umanit??ii îi lipseÅŸte scopul, nu-nseamn? oare c? ea îns??i nu exist? înc??

it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?

Éste es mi camino, ¿dónde esta el vuestro?», así respondía yo a quienes me preguntaban «por el camino». ¡El camino, en efecto, no existe!

IF there were gods, how could I endure it to be no God!

Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

Man is incurably curious.