„Amikor az emberek már nem hisznek Istenben, akkor nem semmiben hisznek, hanem bármiben.”
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Eredeti
When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.
This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Émile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophet : The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having Father Brown say, in "The Oracle of the Dog" (1923): "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense." Cammaerts then interposes his own analysis between further quotes from Father Brown: "'It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.' The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything: 'And a dog is an omen and a cat is a mystery.'" Note that the remark about believing in anything is outside the quotation marks — it is Cammaerts. The correct attribution was reportedly first traced by Pasquale Accardo. http://www.chesterton.org/ceases-to-worship/ It was also credited to Nigel Rees (as cited in First Things, 1997). http://books.google.com/books?id=NuQnAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+first+effect+of+not+believing+in+God+is+to+believe+in+anything%22&dq=%22The+first+effect+of+not+believing+in+God+is+to+believe+in+anything%22&hl=en&ei=PSzcTvewIefx0gHqmrj0DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ
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Válaszul Herbert S. Goldstein, New Your rabbijának távíiratára (1929 Április 24.), amely így szólt: "Hisz ön Istenben? Stop. Válasz 50 szóig fizetve." Einstein 25 (német) szóval válaszolt.
Eredeti: I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
„Az igazság nem változik attól, hogy az emberek többsége hisz benne, vagy nem hisz benne.”
„A rosszban csak utána hisz az ember.”
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