Tucker Max Quotes

CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two feet tall, with a sparkly mane, we'll know my imaginary friend is real too.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

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.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

I don't believe in the landscape.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.