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Letter "D" » disbelief
«It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| About:
Art,
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
disbelief, in suspension, suspension, suspension of disbelief
«Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
disbelief, ignorance, lack, regardless, understanding
«The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.»
Author: A. A. Milne
(Humorist)
| About:
Atheism,
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
agnosticism, atheism, bicycle, Bicycles, cinema, disbelief, emptied, golf, golf course, motor, motoring, motors, Old Course, Old Testament, responsible for, testament
«The word 'Antichrist' ,to me, is the collective disbelief in god.»
Author: Marilyn Manson
| Keywords:
Antichrist, collective, disbelief, The Antichrist, The Collective
«Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.»
«It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
dangerous, disbelief, society
«To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
argue, dignities, dignity, disbelief, in history, occur, occurred, Of Man
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amusement, blockhead, blockheads, civilized, disbelief, expresses, instruction, liar, loudly, rate, re-creation, recognizes, recreation, recreations, very loudly
«It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
constitutes, disbelief, for the moment, in suspension, poetic, suspension, suspension of disbelief
«The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
blasphemies, blasphemy, decreed, decreeing, disbelief, Laws, the book, The Word, voted, Word of God
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