Die Gewohnheit einer Meinung erzeugt oft völlige Ueberzeugung von ihrer Richtigkeit, sie verbirgt die schwächeren Theile davon, und macht uns unfähig, die Beweise dagegen anzunehmen.The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction...

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

To all these charges – my answer is zero – there is absolutely not a single proof of misappropriation of funds,

When I started writingI was a sick teenagedfuck inside who partlythought I was the newMarquis de Sade, a bodydoomed to communicatewith Satan who was us-ing my sickness as hishome away from home,and there’s your proof.

It was her brother,’ said Mr. Thornton to himself. ‘I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I...

Should reviewers have caught some of this? Yeah, probably they should have. Obviously great claims require great proof, and maybe more people should review such a paper.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

The service that may be offered to the faithful and non-Christian spouses who are going through difficulties would be misleading if one encouraged in them, even if only implicitly, the tendency to forget the indissolubility...

The proof, so to speak, will be in the pudding,

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology...

Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be...

Don’t base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or...

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our...

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything...

Packet logs and the video together are overwhelming proof.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of...

To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important...

Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only ‘pseudo problems,’ because they can be formulated only in terms of...

Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or...

I’ve become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof....

They told me they wanted proof that somebody has a — what did they call it? — a tangible work product. All you need to do is pull up my site and hit ‘print,’ and...

True love doesn’t need proof.The eyes told what heart felt.

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.

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas...

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize into edges, but all Dissolutions of different things, caused by acid liquors, do...

We don’t need less kids, just more middle managers…

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending – simply because it doesn’t end as long as love is pure and true”.

How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the...

The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ; the world knew everything about Jesus when they crucified him. The world is guilty. John 16:5-8.

He could leave as early as tomorrow. This is proof that the European anti- terrorism laws work.

Number three: Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious claims it makes. The church says, ‘Oh, it’s right here in this book,...

It’s called being antisocial.

The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but...

The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is...

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

In the Christian religion, though perhaps not in any other, we frequently find a conception of god that is selfcontradictory and therefore corresponds to nothing. That is the conception formed by the following three propositions...

Atheism is a religion of egoism….they hate the name “God” so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer

We used to be able to collect and show proof of payment to ABC on overdue accounts. Now if a subscriber is one day late with a payment over 90 days, the computer system automatically...

We’d need proof of financial status, but making sure they have transportation is such a priority for the Council on Aging board of directors that this isn’t going to be a problem.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Empirical proof doesn’t drive progress. Progress is driven by curiosity, something we all have built into us. Empirical proof is a safety net for those uncomfortable with the unknown.