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quotes by topic beliefs

" If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true? "

tobias , beliefs

" ...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear "

Love , beliefs

" I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays. "

Atheist , beliefs

" The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear. "

beliefs

" I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'"I thought of Hercule Poirot's words."I'm content," I said, "to be human...."We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong. "

Agatha Christie

beliefs

" 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 am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing. "

Bertrand Russell

Rationality , beliefs

" Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour. "

beliefs