“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”

— James Salter , book A Sport and a Pastime

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American novelist and short-story writer 1925–2015

Ward Moore book Bring the Jubilee

Source: Bring the Jubilee

“Since we believe that there is no one who is perfect, we can easily claim that no one is innocent either. It's just a matter of time.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.”

Israel Shahak (1933–2001) Israeli academic

Jewish History, Jewish Religion (1994)

“Life is like a spring dream which vanishes without a trace.”

Su Shi (1037–1101) Chinese writer

As quoted in Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu, Chapter 1: 'Wedded Bliss'; translated by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942), p. 968
Variant translation:
Life passes like a spring dream without a trace.
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 156

“One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.”
“Believers in what?”

Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer

“In everything.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 5 (p. 72)

“Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.”

Charles Darwin book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), chapter XIII: "Self-attention — Shame — Shyness — Modesty: Blushing", page 347 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=375&itemID=F1142&viewtype=image

“She no longer believes very strongly in belief… Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.”

J.M. Coetzee book Elizabeth Costello

Elizabeth Costello (2003)

“The inertia of society is so stubborn that no one will move against it, if he cannot believe that it can be more easily overcome than is actually the case.”

Reinhold Niebuhr book Moral Man and Immoral Society

Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), p.221
Context: The naïve faith of the proletarian is the faith of the man of action. Rationality belongs to the cool observers. There is of course an element of illusion in the faith of the proletarian, as there is in all faith. But it is a necessary illusion, without which some truth is obscured. The inertia of society is so stubborn that no one will move against it, if he cannot believe that it can be more easily overcome than is actually the case.

“I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

“In this world of turmoil, I still believe in one thing strongly and that’s the flag and everything our country was built on.”

Tyler Eifert (1990) American football player, tight end

Why I Stand https://medium.com/@tylereifert/whyistand-95bbe57a2436 (September 9, 2017)

“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”

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