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Belief Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
- Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
- Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I…
- Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
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- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
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- 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
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