Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Belief

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
- Antonio Machado

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
- Ernest Renan

Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know.
- Montaigne

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
- Goethe

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not utterly absurd.
- Bertrand Russell

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
- Voltaire

Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
- Thomas Moore

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
- Edna Saint Vincent

He’s a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t Perceive,
And he’s a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.
- William Blake

It is your assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
- Pascal

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

- William Blake