Belief Quotes - page 4

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. (Bertrand Russell)

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

Thomas Pynchon

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

H. L. Mencken

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Clarence Darrow

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varèse

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that "belief" must be discarded and replaced by "the scientific method."

Max Born

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

Eugen Drewermann

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. (Archibald MacLeish)

And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

Christopher Columbus

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Johann Georg Hamann

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

Todd Akin

If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.

Arthur Miller

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...

Joseph Conrad

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Sigmund Freud

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All money is a matter of belief. (Adam Smith)

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Martin Seligman

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

Reza Aslan

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