Belief Quote by William James Download Open image “Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belief Believe Men Modern Modern man Needs
“The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular… — James May Copy Share Image
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Is this even possible today?- But some day, in a stronger age than this decaying, self-doubting present, he must yet come to us, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God.… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
