#eli

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#men

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. ↗

— Albert Camus

#meaning #men

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#honor #pride #men

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there! ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#religion #science #death

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#cohabitation #commitment #marriage #maturity #reliability

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#religion #business

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in. ↗

— Po Bronson

#business #business

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible. ↗

— Carter Dickson

#endurance #strength #men

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#doubt #men

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#religion #secularism #art