Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

Religions do not teach doubt.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.