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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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I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, w...

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People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live i...

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Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about peopl...

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In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds m...

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E. M. ForsterWhat I Believe and Other Essays

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably fal...

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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of reli...

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The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spir...

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The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the sp...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

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Eric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civiliz...

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By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. The...

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and a...

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It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make yo...

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The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave...

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Gerry SpenceSeven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, f...

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H. L. MenckenThe Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

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.