Jennifer Michael Hecht famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Doubt #Different #Belief
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Grass #Prozac #Pops
Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Laughing #Trying #Revolution
Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Mean #Alive #Moments
We believe each other into being.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Believe
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to â€œrenounce his personality,â€ and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Believe #Judging #Personality
If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Years #Advice #Looks
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Believe #Possibility #Range

History is the great propagator of doubt.
There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons. All of which makes them easy and mouth watering targets for the believers.
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
All money is a matter of belief.
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.

Jennifer Michael Hecht famous quotes

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