Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
Believe - Belief Quotes
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. Thus the fear and hate; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward.
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn’t there… what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe […]
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
What I believed in the Sixties: Everything. You name it and I believed it. I believed love was all you need. I believed you should be here now. I believed drugs could make everyone a better person. I believed I could hitchhike to California with thirty-five cents and people would be glad to feed me. […]
Your petitioners are atheists and they define their life-style as follows. An Atheist loves himself and his fellowman instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now – here on earth – for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist thinks that he can get no help […]
The most ominous of fallacies – the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
