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Letter "B" » Belief
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«A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.»
«A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
proportions
«An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports»
«A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Belief
«At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
core, founded, The Core, unfounded, well-founded
«Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
confessors, inferred
«Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
accepting, affirmations, denying, unbelief
«A belief is not true because it is useful»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Belief
«A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
on his own, uncharitable
«A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in getting only two men, and not a single woman, decent enough to enter the promised land? (Num»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Belief,
God
| Keywords:
promised land, succeeded
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