One's belief in truth begins with doubt of all truths one has believed hitherto

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true

All you have to do is tell the truth and come clean for your sake and the sake of all of use who so believed in you. Maybe this is the beginning of another kind of truth for you.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.