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Belief Quotes by Alain de Botton
- It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.
- Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked,…
- In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because…
- The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the…
More Belief Quotes
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach