"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."

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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Belief, Fanaticism, Doubt, Soul, Certainty

"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."

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"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."

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"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."

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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."

"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."

"The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs."

"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."

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"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."

"A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action."

"Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."

"The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves."

"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."

"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."

"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."

"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."

"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."