Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Belief
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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A man lives by believing something.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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