Believe - Quotes
In essence, your eyes don`t show you what you see they show you what you believe.
I don`t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you`re spending your time doing something worthwhile.
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don`t have as many people who believe it.
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us...
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.
Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don`t believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject.
I`m angry that when people run for political office in the United States, it`s considered legitimate to grill them about their employment background, their positions on legislation, their positions on social issues, the taxes they`ve paid [...]... but it`s considered invasive and intolerant to ask if they believe in talking snakes, demonic possession, magic underwear, magic crackers that turn into the flesh of their god, an Earth that was created 6,000 years ago, or a god who put himself on Earth in human form and then sacrificed himself to himself to atone for sins that other people committed and to save humanity from the punishment he himself was planning to dole out. If someone is going to make decisions about science funding, emerging medical technology, our educational system, and so on... I think it matters if they believe any of that shit, and I bloody well want to know about it.
I don`t differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.