There is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone – quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs, then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.
Contrary to what phenomenology – which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.