Quotes About Doubt

Duas vezes jurei ser O que julgo que sou, Só para desconhecer Que não sei para onde vou.

Pertenezco a una generación que ha heredado el descreimiento en la fe cristiana y que ha creado en sí misma un descreimiento en todas las demás fes.

I feel a kind of horror at the superior tyranny that obliges us to keep walking even though we have no idea what it is that our uncertainty is going to meet.

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells.

Piccola Ophelinha, non so se mi vuole bene, ma le scrivo esattamente per questo motivo.

I fell, with every sunset, against my hopes and certainties.

Así las cosas, no sabiendo creer en Dios y no pudiendo creer en una suma de animales, me encontré, como otros hombres, en esa distancia de todo lo que solemos llamar Decadencia. La Decadencia es la pérdida total de la inconsciencia, pues la inconsciencia es el fundamento de la vida. Si el corazón pudiera pensar, se detendría.

La suprema gloria de todo esto, mi amor, estriba en pensar que tal vez nada de esto sea verdad, ni en yo creerlo verdadero.

Nací en un tiempo en el que la mayoría de los jóvenes habían perdido la creencia en Dios, por la misma razón por la que sus mayores la habían tenido —sin saber por qué—

I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it – without knowing why.

To explain is to disbelieve.

I'm handed faith like a sealed package on a strange-looking platter and am expected to accept it without opening it. I'm handed science, like a knife on a plate, to cut the folios of a book whose pages are blank. I'm handed doubt, like dust inside a box--but why give me a box if all it contains is dust?

Nunca duvidei que todos me traíssem; e pasmei sempre quando me traíram.

Nasci num tempo em que a maioria dos jovens tinham perdido a crença em Deus, pela mesma razão que os seus maiores a tinham tido — sem saber porquê.

To be lucid is to be indisposed towards oneself. The only legitimate state of mind when looking inside oneself is that of someone who sees only nerves and indecisions.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

I've never known if it was my sensibility that was too much for my intelligence, or my intelligence that was too much for my sensibility. I've always been late, I'm not sure if for the former or for the latter, or perhaps for both, or perhaps it was the third thing that was late.

No encontrar nunca a Dios, no saber nunca, ni siquiera, si Dios existe! Ir pasando de mundo en mundo, de encarnación en encarnación, siempre en la ilusión que halaga, siempre en el error que acaricia.

Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

The more I meditate on our capacity for self-deception, the more my certainties crumble, slipping through my fingers as fine sand. And when this meditation becomes a feeling that clouds my mind, then the whole world appears to me as a mist made of shadows, a twilight of edges and corners, a fiction of the interlude,* a dawn that never becomes morning.

A metà strada tra la fede e la critica c'è sempre l'ostello della ragione. La ragione è la fede in ciò che si può comprendere senza fede; ma è anche essa stessa una fede, perchè comprendere implica presupporre che esista qualcosa di comprensibile.

109 [126] Even my dreams turn on me. I achieve such a degree of lucidity in them that I perceived as real everything I dreamed. So, because I dreamed it, was everything I valued just a waste of time?

La vida es la duda entre una exclamación y una interrogación. En la duda hay un punto final.

aquele Jesus Cristo que não foi nada no mundo, tanto que se duvida dele pela história