Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. – John Lancaster Spalding Category: Belief
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin Category: Belief
He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Belief
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams Category: Society
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton Category: Suffering
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz Category: Beauty
