Faith Quotes

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

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"Faith is not irrational but a rational trust in what exceeds our comprehension."
MacIntyre, Alasdair
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"Faith is not belief in something; it is trust in what remains uncertain."
Foucault, Michel
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"The promise always contains within it the possibility of its own betrayal."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The sacred and profane are not opposites but are implicated in each other."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Faith in a predetermined essence is an escape from the anxiety of freedom."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Faith in divine destiny is a tempting escape; accepting freedom's burden requires courage."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Faith in the world is the primary structure of consciousness."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The argument from design survives scrutiny better than atheistic complacency suggests."
Kripke, Saul
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"The existence of God cannot be settled by linguistic convention or stipulation."
Kripke, Saul
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"The modal argument for God's existence deserves serious engagement, not dismissal."
Kripke, Saul
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"The fundamental problem with religion is that it makes claims about reality that cannot be verified."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"To say that God exists is to make a metaphysical assertion that is literally meaningless."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Faith requires abandoning the demand for empirical verification."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The existence of God is not a factual claim but an emotional expression."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Religious statements are expressions of feeling, not factual claims."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Propositions about God fall outside the realm of meaningful discourse."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"To believe in God is to commit oneself to an unverifiable proposition."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The debate over existence of God rests on linguistic confusion about the word 'exist.'"
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Only a god can save us now."
Heidegger, Martin
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"What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"To believe in God means to understand the question about the purpose of life as answered."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Faith in humanity is an act of courage."
Popper, Karl
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"Religious language is neither true nor false but emotionally expressive."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The existence of God is neither provable nor disprovable."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Religious and moral language serve emotional rather than factual functions."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Reason and faith must be reconciled."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Only a god can save us now."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The gods have withdrawn; we live in the time of deficiency."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Religion expresses the deepest human longings."
Dilthey, Wilhelm