All Quotes By Tag: Belief

“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”

“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”

“I’m happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.”

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

“Faith in faith’ he answered himself. ‘It isn’t necessary to have something to believe in. It’s only necessary to believe that somewhere there’s something worthy of belief.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“belief is the death of intelligence.”

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

“Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”

“Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”