Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund FreudTags: truth illusions belief proof religious-doctrines
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry SpenceFaith 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.
Alfred BesterTags: philosophy belief faith 1956 gully-foyle
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry NewmanTags: belief
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen RobertsTags: belief religion atheism deism scepticism
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 RussellTags: knowledge reason belief burden-of-proof fiction satan superstition gods probability proof egyptian babylon christian-god hypothesis olympus rational santa
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
Douglas AdamsTags: paradox advice belief internet scepticism net
When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.
[The New York Times interview, 2000]
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Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science happiness experience reason inspiration belief nature hope observation supernatural content holy-trinity trinity
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: belief fate religion luck accidents
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