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• I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.

  Kenny Smith

  God, Believe, Intelligent

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• I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Thinking, Belief

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• Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

  David Hume

  Ties, May, Belief

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• Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

  Andrew Lord

  Magic, Encounters, Wonder

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• Anhelo vivir y amar y arder, y sin embargo gran parte de mi tiempo lo paso fingiendo y olvidando, fingiendo y olvidando que llevo a cabo mi incredulidad con manos sin inspiración, los ojos cerrados, las emociones embotadas, el espíritu entumecido. En tiempos como estos necesito desesperadamente que la verdad venga a mí como una luz cegadora, como una astilla en mi alma, recordándome la brevedad de mi tiempo aquí en la tierra.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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• Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

  Michael Shermer

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is the law of humanity, a law of history. If civilized man falls into disbelief and immorality, the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Religious, Fall, Men

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• I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.

  Mark Strong

  Sleep, Family And Friends, Usual

  Source: collider.com

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• I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars.
  For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe.
  I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.

  Craig Stone

  Stars, Eye, Ideas

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• How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Katniss, Relief

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• Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

  Salman Rushdie

  Opposites, Doubt, Finals

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Arms, Belief

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

  Hal Rothman

  Real, Thinking, Vegas

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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• Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

  Charles Darwin

  Lasts, Rate, Conclusion

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.119, NYU Press

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• Es erróneo que un hombre diga que está seguro de la verdad objetiva de cualquier proposición, a menos que pueda presentar pruebas que justifiquen lógicamente esa certeza. Esto es lo que afirma el Agnosticismo; y, en mi opinión, es todo lo que es esencial al Agnosticismo. Lo que los Agnósticos niegan y repudian, como inmoral, es la doctrina contraria, que hay proposiciones que los hombres deben creer sin evidencia lógicamente satisfactoria; y que la reprobación debe adjuntarse a la profesión de incredulidad en tales proposiciones inadecuadamente apoyadas.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Men, Atheism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

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• La cláusula de "establecimiento de religión" de la Primera Enmienda significa al menos esto: Ni un Estado ni el Gobierno Federal pueden establecer una iglesia. Tampoco pueden aprobar leyes que ayuden a una religión, ayuden a todas las religiones o prefieran una religión sobre otra. Tampoco pueden obligar ni influir en una persona para que acuda o se mantenga alejada de la iglesia en contra de su voluntad ni obligarla a profesar una creencia o no creencia en ninguna religión.

  Hugo Black

  Significado, Gobierno, Ley

  "Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1". Writing for the court, 1947.

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• Cuando se trata de actuar, la gente habla de la suspensión de la incredulidad que le pides al público. Antes de empezar, como actor, tienes que suspender tu propia incredulidad.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Gente, Actuación, Actores

  "Helena Bonham Carter Talks BURTON AND TAYLOR, Elizabeth Taylor vs Queen Elizabeth, Signing on to the Project, Consulting an Astrologer and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

  Tom Stoppard

  Nodding, Fields, Faces

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Al igual que la creencia, la duda adopta formas muy diversas, desde el escepticismo antiguo al empirismo científico moderno, desde la duda en muchos dioses a la duda en un Dios, pasando por la duda que recrea y aviva la fe y la duda que es realmente incredulidad.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Doubt, Different, Belief

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• Algunas citas populares huelen a armarios sin aire. Exhalan la imaginación rancia de la clase media baja intelectual. "Suspensión de la incredulidad" se ha convertido en una de ellas. Disfrazada de doble negación centelleante, sirve a la noción pedestre del arte como ilusión.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Arte, Clase, Olfato

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Believe, Phones, Knowing

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• La incredulidad es contagiosa. Se contagia a la gente.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Catching

  "A Miracle of Rare Device". Playboy, January 1962.

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• I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hurt, Hands, Two

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• El problema es superar la arraigada incredulidad en el poder de ganar la naturaleza por amor, en la forma suave (ju) (do) de girar con el patín, de controlarnos cooperando con nosotros mismos.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Nature, Winning

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