philosophy of belief Quotes

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

I believe in order that I may understand.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

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

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.