The temerity to believe in nothing.
Believe - Belief Quotes
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.
I was obliged to eat (apples), I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
People will believe what they want to believe.
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody – it saves so much trouble.
No man ever quite believes in any other man.
What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone’s being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decades.
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind – that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the […]
