Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Unbelief
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
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