Quote by Walter Kaufmann
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based o

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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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. – Walter Kaufmann

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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddhas atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. – Walter Kaufmann

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. – John Paul Jones

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. – Irving Babbitt

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. – Sean Connery

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Im on the board of a national group called Faith in America. Its designed to fight religious-based bigotry. – James McGreevey

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