“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Second Series, p. 186
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.”
El mal de no creer es creer un poco.
Voces (1943)
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“Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Review of Selected Essays http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13783 by Simone Weil, The New York Review of Books (1 February 1963) <br class="br">Context: Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction. We measure truth in terms of the cost to the writer in suffering — rather than by the standard of an objective truth to which a writer's words correspond. Each of our truths must have a martyr.
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Tears and Saints (1937)
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
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“For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.”
George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
Source: Real Presences (1989), III: Presences, Ch. 6 (p. 218).
“Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure.The Rich stay healthy,the Sick stay poor”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"God Part II
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
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Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
Hartford Advocate Interview (2008)
“None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IV : The Essence of Catholicism
Context: ... as the great Unitarian preacher Channing pointed out, that in France and Spain there are multitudes who have proceeded from rejecting Popery to absolute atheism, because "the fact is, that false and absurd doctrines, when exposed, have a natural tendency to beget skepticism in those who receive them without reflection. None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much." Here is, indeed, the terrible danger of believing too much. But no! the terrible danger comes from another quarter — from seeking to believe with the reason and not with the life.