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Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

— Joseph de Maistre

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

— Simon Greenleaf

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

— Jean Rostand

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

— Bertrand Russell

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

— William Robertson Smith

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

— Said Nursi

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

— David Friedrich Strauss

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

— Thomas Aquinas

✗Opposing Perspectives

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

— Charles Darwin