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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
(David Jenkins (b. 1925), British ecclesiastic, Bishop of Durham. quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, Nov. 2, 1988).)
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
(Louis-Ferdinand Cιline (1894-1961), French author. the narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night, p. 180 (1932, trans. 1934, repr. 1966).)
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The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
(Franηois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 128 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. "Historic Murder," pt. 5, The Rebel (1951, trans. 1953).)
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
(Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 193 (1951).)
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If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Fate," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in fucking with a warm heart.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Privately printed in Florence (1928). Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 14, Bantam Books (1980).
Oliver Mellors (the novel's hero) is speaking.)
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I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, July 8, 1843, to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 92, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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