Sentence examples for without beliefs from inspiring English sources

As a result, China was becoming a society without beliefs or respect for law, although on the surface the Chinese appeared to be deferential to their rulers.

David Denby frames his "Great Books," in which a 48-year-old writer returns to college to learn how to read the classics and then teaches us how to read them too, with the self-effacing conceit that he had suddenly awakened to his own ignorance: "I possessed information without knowledge, opinions without principles, instincts without beliefs".

This thus confirms that business owners with beliefs are more willing to make charitable donations than those without beliefs.

If this is correct, the basic philosophical puzzle about Arcesilaus' skepticism is not whether it is possible to live without beliefs, but whether it is possible to be committed to rationality and yet sufficiently detached from it to recognise that, whatever it is, it may not work.

If Arcesilaus did not defend the possibility of living without beliefs by advocating a positive theory of action, we need to find another way to explain his attested commitment to the views that nothing can be known and that one should not form beliefs.

-- Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs.

Man is lost without belief.

Still, he is not without belief.

And: How to pray without belief?

It's a yes without meaning, without belief.

It's hard to think of you, Seamus, without belief.