The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
Jacques MonodTag: choice belief universe chance meaning alone destiny covenant
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.
Albert EinsteinThe religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.
Albert EinsteinThere are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.
Edward GoreyTag: belief false-beliefs introjects
Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.
Tag: science truth knowledge belief atheism astronomy agnosticism carl-sagan sagan
Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?
Tag: life belief poor short solitary nasty francis-rawdon-moira-crozier banalities brutish hidden-mysteries hobbe-s-leviathan miseries
Belief has nothing to do with facts,
especially for the unbelievable facts.
Tag: life truth people belief fact unbelievable
أنت تجد في الشرق أحد اثنين .. تجد من يرفض العلم اكتفاء بالدين و
القرآن .. و تجد من يرفض الدين اكتفاء و عبادة للعلم المادي و الوسائل
المادية .
و كلا الاثنين سبب من أسباب النكبة الحضارية في المنطقة .. و كلاهما
لم يفهم المعنى الحقيقي للدين و لا المعنى الحقيقي للعلم .
I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.
Dennis LehaneLet it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous.
Charles Sanders PeirceTag: fear belief integrity immoral
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