“Belief has nothing to do with knowledge, & credo ut intelligam [I believe in order that I might understand] is horseshit.”

Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 382)

Quoted in "Speaking of Faith: The Morality of Nature" by Krista Tippett in American Public Media (7 April 2005) http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/moralityofnature/kristasjournal.shtml
Context: I profess my Faith. For me, the existence of all this complexity and awareness and intent and beauty, and my ability to apprehend it, serves as the ultimate meaning and the ultimate value. The continuation of life reaches around, grabs its own tail, and forms a sacred circle that requires no further justification, no Creator, no super-ordinate meaning of meaning, no purpose other than that the continuation continue until the sun collapses or the final meteor collides. I confess a credo of continuation. And in so doing, I confess as well a credo of human continuation.

Source: The Janson Directive

The Quest

Source: The Biggest Secret, 1998

Tractates on the Gospel of John; tractate XXIX on John 7:14-18, §6 A Select Library of the Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church Volume VII by St. Augustine, chapter VII (1888) as translated by Philip Schaff http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf107.iii.xxx.html.
Compare: Anselm of Canterbury: "Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand".

Albert Einstein, Princeton, 26 April 1947
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Source: undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993), p. 78

Mi última creencia es sufrir. Y comienzo a creer que no sufro.
Voces (1943)