Quotes About Doubt

Miracle does not always signify miracle.

Descartes useless and unnecessary.

What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe!

What then is man to do in this state of affairs? Is he to doubt everything, to doubt if he is awake, whether he is being pinched or burned? Is he to doubt whether he is doubting, to doubt whether he exists? No one can go that far, and I maintain that a perfectly genuine sceptic has never existed.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

It may be that there are such things as true proofs, but it is not certain.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

The church has had as much difficulty in proving that Jesus was man, against those who denied it, as in proving that he was God, and both were equally evident.

you would like to cure yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be: if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

How I hate these follies of not believing in the Eucharist, &c.! If the Gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

One must know when it is right to doubt, to affirm, to submit. Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason. Some men run counter to these three principles, either affirming that everything can be proved, because they know nothing about proof, or doubting everything, because they do not know when to submit, or always submitting, because they do not know when judgment is called for.

Instability.—It is a horrible thing to feel all that we possess slipping away.

The apostles were either deceived or deceivers. Either supposition is difficult.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

There is nothing so conformable to reason as to disavow reason

I believe those witnesses who get their throats cut.

My faith feels tattered and threadbare and I am ashamed. What good is it if it does not see me through pain? But a scrap of faith is better than nothing, so I cling to it tightly.

You say you lost your faith But that's not where it's at You had no faith to lose And you know it

I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud!

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.

I can't think for you, you'll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had god on his side

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved, you cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied