Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has... once again become religious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than ...I had. Then I moved up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Painting throughout its history has served many purposes, has been flat and has used perspective, has been framed and has been lef...t borderless, has been explicit and has been mysterious. But one act of faith has remained a constant.... The act of faith consisted in believing that the visible contained hidden secrets, that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance.... Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the times which nourished him, to refuse this act of faith: to insist, with all his brilliance as a painter, that there was nothing behind, that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing i...n the Christian religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by... believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won...'t be able to believe the simplest true things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that... some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investm...ent in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »