Quotes About Belief

Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.

Shalt's" and "shalt not's" will break in later in a most tragic fashion and murder Christ in every single child.

Briç oynamam, kuramlar?m? yaymak için kokteyl partileri de vermem. Ö?retilerim do?ruysa kendi kendilerine yay?lacaklard?r.

Sen onlara ancak ?öyle sahip ç?kars?n küçük adam: Öteki küçük adamlar, bu büyük adamlar?n gerçekten büyük oldu?unu sana söyledi?i zaman.

Do?al ve bozulmam?? birey, bütün insanlar?n do?al oldu?una inan?r ve ona göre davran?r. Vebal? bireyse, bütün insanlar?n yalan söyledi?ine, çal?p ç?rpt???na, ba?kalar?n? doland?rd???na ve üstünlü?ü ele geçirme çabas? içinde ç?rp?nd???na inan?r.

Seninle ayn? masaya oturan ya da seninle ayn? evde ya?ayan birinin herhangi bir büyük i? ba?araca??na inanamazs?n. Senin yak?n çevrende, küçük adam, dü?ünmek çok güçtür; insan ancak sana dair dü?ünür, seninle birlikte de?il. Çünkü büyük dü?ünceleri, geni? kapsaml? dü?ünceleri g?rtlaklars?n sen.

Mencione a essência dos seus desejos e sentimentos religiosos, e o povo rirá zombeteiramente, ou sorrirá com nojo.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Modul în care un om î?i accept? destinul este mai important decît însu?i destinul s?u.

I'm cold, Religiously cold.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

I stare at Isabel without blinking. I stare until I can see the pale roots of her natural hair and the expensive skin cream that changed her skin from milk to olive and the colored lenses that gave her yellow eyes and I wonder how she changed her breasts and ass and shortened her legs. I stare at her until her eyes are pointed and her teeth glitter like fangs and I have to close my eyes. If she said her name was Lucy and she faked her death I would believe her.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

During part of her childhood, Elizabeth was illegitimate. In 1534, Parliament ruled that it was treason to believe her illegitimate. In 1536, it was treason to believe her legitimate. Signals were changed again in 1543, and again in 1553. After that you could believe anything.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities (such as a sequence of six girls) appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention.

message, unless it is immediately rejected as a lie, will have the same effect on the associative system regardless of its reliability.

You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.

It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims

As I described earlier, System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent as possible. Unless the message is immediately negated, the associations that it evokes will spread as if the message were true. System 2 is capable of doubt, because it can maintain incompatible possibilities at the same time.

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett