I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
Thus such another will not easily come to you, men, but if you believe me, you will spare me; but perhaps you might possibly be offended, like the sleeping who are awakened, striking me, believing Anytus, you might easily kill, then the rest of your lives you might continue sleeping, unless the god caring for you should send you another.
I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Religious doctrines, are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
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What really moves people to believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is a big brother who will look after you. That plays a very profound part in influencing people’s desire for a belief in God.
What really moves people to believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.