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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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – William James

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Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity These are its sign and note and character. – Robert Browning

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