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quotes by topic Belief

" The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything‚Äîexcept the truth. "

Belief , Comfort

" Twelve minutes. I can give you that. "

Faith , Belief

" Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox. "

Belief , Politics

" (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.)(And you are deserving of shame?)(I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.''Why is this stupid?''Because there are not things to believe in.'(Love?)(There is no love. Only the end of love.)(Goodness?)(Do not be a fool.)(God?)(If God exists, He is not to be believed in.) "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Family , Belief

" All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God. "

Agatha Christie

Death , Belief

" After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe. "

Agatha Christie

Belief , Cleanliness

" 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. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief , beliefs

" I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief

" What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief , Discovery

" It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief

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