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Belief Quotes
"It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying."
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"The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth."
40
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
38
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
30
"You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?"
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"Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies."
25
"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."
23
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
22
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing."
20
"Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality."
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"Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves."
18
"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
17
"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
17
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."
17
"If someone's beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs."
17
"Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before."
16
"When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going."
16
"So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog."
16
"If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist."
16
"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
15
"It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology."
15
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
15
"I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals."
15
"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
15
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
15
"I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations."
15
"Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-self, and your stupid alter-ego."
15
"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."
15
"It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us."
14
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
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