Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, 'You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.

And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.

We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

Do I believe? God only knows.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.