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“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”

Years Stills Belief Cities Twenties Absence Paris Thirty Persistent Thirty Years Year One Nothing Ever Changes

Book:Outside

Source: Outside

“When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.”

Ifs Reality Belief Lost Causes Divine Absence Attachment Sparks New Things Cloaks Belief In God Old Things Incredulity

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

Knows Believe Ends Hard Light Action Belief Waiting My Own Walks Emotion Responsibility Color Discipline Evidence Seasons Sight Winter Insight Absence My Time Spite Inaction Bud Birdsong

Author:Mark Buchanan

“Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.”

Belief Atheism Late Positive Atheism Absence Phenomenon Belief In God

Author:Chapman Cohen

“The absence of theistic belief...”

Belief Atheism Absence

Author:Joseph McCabe

“Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people”

People Belief Teach Treats Absence Tolerance

Author:Timothy Keller

“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”

Ifs Kind Stills Order Winning Belief Given Fun Evidence Argument Atheist Absence Having Fun Propositions Unreasonable Just Have Fun

Author:Scott Clifton

“Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.”

Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers

“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.”

Mind Helping Belief Understanding Lines Simple Views Balance Intellectual Solutions Faults Point Of View Absence Concentration Remedy Imaginative One Line Simple Solutions

Author:Geoffrey Elton