Walter Kaufmann Quotes
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
Lady Gaga
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
Maeve Binchy
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
Orson F. Whitney
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
J. J. Abrams
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
Zadie Smith
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving Babbitt
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As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.
Dolly Parton
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Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.
H. P. Lovecraft
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How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.
Mary Pipher
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
Sherman Alexie
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I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.
Aziz Ansari
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann
