32 Quotes by Jennifer Michael Hecht

The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.

Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance.

The mistake of Marc Antony’s death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.

Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.

Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras’s atheism held that society must “denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.