When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn’t enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
I’m always inclined to believe that the best way of knowing God is to love a great deal.[Je suis toujours porté à croire que le meilleur moyen pour connaître Dieu, c’est d’aimer beaucoup.]
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
We are led to believe a lie, when we see not through the eye, which was born in a night to perish in a night, when the soul slept in beams of light.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.[An einen Gott glauben heißt sehen, daß es mit den Tatsachen der Welt noch nicht abgetan ist.]
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructable element in oneself and not striving towards it.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it—I don’t need to believe it.
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
