[D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without feeling disturbed in my soul, without incurring guilt; that is no matter of theory, but a matter of conscience[.] Ludwig Feuerbach
Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Miguel De Unamuno
We’ll never survive! ” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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William Goldman
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the...
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P.g. Wodehouse
Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
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Kilroy J. Oldster
Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht
More Quotes By Ludwig Feuerbach
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism – at least in the sense of this work – is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according...
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his...
Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
