Belief Quotes - Page 29

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 81, 1799.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.1109, Clap Publishing, LLC.
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.91, Macmillan
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.
Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
"The Fountains of Paradise". Book by Arthur C. Clarke (Chapter 35: Starglider Plus Eighty, p. 190), 1979.