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"The gods have withdrawn; we live in the time of deficiency."Heidegger, Martin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