Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 4, §3 (pp. 90–91)
Context: One of the historians of Darranda said: To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.
A yielding, an obedience, a willingness to accept these notes as the right notes, this pattern as the true pattern, is the essential gesture of performance, translation, and understanding. The gesture need not be permanent, a lasting posture of the mind or heart, yet it is not false. It is more than the suspension of disbelief needed to watch a play, yet less than the conversion. It is a position, a posture in the dance.
“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.”
Section 65, Ch.14 Unifying Agents
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Belief means nothing without actions”
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
I Wanna Learn a Love Song
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zweifeln und halbgültigen Beweisen.
Attributed in Konrad Zuse http://www.dpma.de/ponline/erfindergalerie/bio_zuse.html on "Die Erfindergalerie", dpma.de, 2008
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 67
