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In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He ...

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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...

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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the in...

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Jacques MaritainCreative Intuition in Art and Poetry

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understo...

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It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibl...

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Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

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To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

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The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my vi...

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I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different y...

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People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that yo...

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One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously i...

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One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously i...

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He h...

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The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patt...

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...

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They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people...

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There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

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As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

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I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pr...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of...

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Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay yo...

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Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at th...

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The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not t...

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...

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Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-...

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There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who beli...

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I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...

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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...

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In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed q...

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Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

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Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe i...

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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take respo...

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Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs again...

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I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil ...

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...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...

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My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

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Oscar WildeDe Profundis

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion ...

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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the...

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Ray KurzweilHow to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned a...

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Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...

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Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I w...

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Ron PaulLiberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...

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There is no higher authority.

The witch is a dangerous person. Neither his appearance nor his behaviour betray his satanic nature....

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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, c...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortun...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a...

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When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd acco...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all ...

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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

"Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be."

I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He...

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However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the mod...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not ...

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...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring th...

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Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, be...

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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...

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I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he s...

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I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in th...

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Anne RiceThe Vampire Lestat

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to le...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

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Anton ChekhovThe Cherry Orchard

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and...

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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...

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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief wil...

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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...

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Bertrand RussellThe Philosophy of Logical Atomism

New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house....

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...

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You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a...

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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attenti...

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The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

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We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is th...

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Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has no...

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We only give credence to that which we can prove exists. Since we cannot find evidence that gods, mi...

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It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ...

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The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very ...

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