Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Belief
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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Not only did he not believe in ghosts, he wasn't even afraid of them.
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There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
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There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.