ABSTRACT

Koran, 8, 2 4 What is always, what is everywhere, what is by all people believed [Quod

semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum est]. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitorium, ii (c. 450)

5 My Lord, I do not believe. Help thou mine unbelief. Samuel Butler, Note Books, G.Keynes and B.Hill (ed.) (1951)

6 I do not believe in Belief… Lord, I disbelieve-help thou my unbelief. E.M.Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

7 My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you. Benjamin Jowett, in Margot Asquith, Autobiography (1922)

8 Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know. Michel de Montaigne, Essays (1588)

9 It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.