Michel De Certeau Quotes

I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.

Pentecostals believe they experience the power of the Holy Spirit at various times. I believe that also since I have experienced it first-hand. It's not something that can be easily explained.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.