We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
Believe - Belief Quotes
You believe what you want to believe.
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not make men believe.
Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.
People used to believe in what they didn’t know. Now we don’t dare believe in what we know.
The man who says to me, “Believe as I do, or God will damn you,” wil presently say, “Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.”
That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve.
Few really believe. The most only believe they believe or even make believe.
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your personal place; that makes you tolerant because you realize […]
