Philip Francis Quotes

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.