Faith Quotes

Belief in something greater, whether divine, human, or simply possible.

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"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
Johann Tetens
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"Faith without reason is the enemy of truth."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"In faith, we find strength when reason alone cannot sustain us."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The human spirit yearns for beauty, meaning, and connection."
Antonio Genovesi
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"The voice of conscience is the voice of truth speaking within us."
Antonio Genovesi
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"There is not any other substance than Spirit"
George Berkeley
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"God is a spirit, but he is not that spirit which you imagine yourselves to be, in as much as we are limited and dependent"
George Berkeley
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"The grand doctrines of the existence of a God and the immortality of the soul are by this philosophy established on such solid foundations of reasoning as I shall venture to say is not to be shaken by the weak objections of infidels"
George Berkeley
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"If the soul is immortal, it is not so in virtue of being a substance, but in virtue of divine preservation"
George Berkeley
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"True comfort is taken out of the knowledge of God"
George Berkeley
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"We do not therefore suppose any manner of necessity, logical or metaphysical, in the connexion between our ideas and those of God"
George Berkeley
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"The best and most perfect part of knowledge is knowing God"
George Berkeley
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"If we had no God we should be obliged to imagine one"
George Berkeley
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"The divine spirit is not extended or composed of parts"
George Berkeley
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"Errors in religion spring from ignorance and want of thinking"
George Berkeley
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"We know God through his effects"
George Berkeley
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"The divine mind is infinite and eternal"
George Berkeley
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"We find nothing more natural than to believe in the existence of God"
George Berkeley
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"True knowledge is the knowledge of God"
George Berkeley
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"Prejudice apart, the Bible does not appear to be a book written by a divine being."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Piety is not truth."
Jérémie Bentham
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"One's religion, in whatever form it takes, is of paramount importance and not to be lightly modified."
John Maynard Keynes
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"I am convinced that the future will vindicate the correctness of my analysis."
John Maynard Keynes
"The complexity of modern society depends on trusting mechanisms we don't fully understand"
Friedrich Hayek
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"Faith is not the absence of reason; it is reason extended beyond what can be proven."
Johann Tetens
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"Faith without works is empty; works without faith lack direction."
Johann Tetens
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"God, if he exists, is indistinguishable from nature itself."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Religion is the comfort tale told to the machine before it wears out."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The afterlife is the fantasy of those who cannot bear death's finality."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"The free society is more truly moral because it rests on respect for the individual."
Friedrich Hayek