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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

George Sand

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Søren Kierkegaard

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Oliver Cromwell

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Abraham Lincoln

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Robert Browning

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham




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