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I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livabl...

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Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl...

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He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...

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There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only th...

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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...

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Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. ...

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There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so.""Yo...

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Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?”“You’re fighting it ...

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What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief- what is faith- ...

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People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.

Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?""As much as is possible," Sazed said. "T...

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their...

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Belief... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept i...

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C. J. CherryhFortress of Ice

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they nev...

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C. S. LewisA Grief Observed

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere...

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it serio...

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question...

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of...

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I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were...

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I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itse...

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C. S. LewisThe Last Battle

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-y...

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Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s some...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem ye...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist...

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Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...

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Charles BradlaughThe Freethinker's Text-Book: Man: Whence and How? Religion: What and Why?

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

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Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded ...

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People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than peop...

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Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

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Charles HartshorneMan's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...

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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...

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Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief a...

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To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

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To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

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It may be asked how I know that there are any Reals. If this hypothesis is the sole support of my me...

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That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays in...

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By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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You don’t so much as become an atheist as find out that’s what you are. There’s no moment of convers...

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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

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Christopher HitchensThe Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reje...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then...

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Believe in me and you shall die, forever.

By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recog...

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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In th...

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I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't ...

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I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protecte...

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It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...

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Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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Coco ChanelBelieving in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The v...

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My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable...

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Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice b...

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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...

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Dallas WillardHearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...

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Dallas WillardHearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe i...

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Dallas WillardRenovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well...

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He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many peo...

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Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

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I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in k...

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When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. A...

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David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

All things that live must die. Man alone it seems lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And ...

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People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live i...

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than wha...

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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing ...

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David HumeDialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

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David HumeLetters of David Hume 2 vols

Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & fal...

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Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & fal...

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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapp...

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David Mitchell (author)The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

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My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is ...

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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time se...

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Dennis LehaneA Drink Before the War

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Ev...

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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is...

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As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

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My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simp...

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you want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many...

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Don MarquisArchy and Mehitabel

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

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Don MarquisArchyology : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel

The vitality of the act was entirely obfuscated, the beauty, the terror, the sacrifice.' He took one...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respe...

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