Quotes About Beliefs

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Las identificaciones del ego más comunes tienen que ver con las posesiones, el trabajo que uno hace, el nivel social y el reconocimiento, el conocimiento y la educación, la apariencia física, las habilidades especiales, las relaciones, la historia personal y familiar, los sistemas de creencias y también a menudo identificaciones políticas, nacionalistas, raciales, religiosas y otras de carácter colectivo. Ninguna de ellas es usted.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications.

You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths.

and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.

Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions.

The attack of a man, equipped with erudition, and of perfectly sober judgment, on cherished beliefs and revered institutions, must always excite the interest, by irritating the passions, of men.

Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

You mainly make yourself needlessly and neurotically miserable by strongly holding absolutist irrational Beliefs (iBs), especially by rigidly believing unconditional shoulds, oughts, and musts.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

We come to realize that the universe mirrors back to us perfectly our beliefs, our intentions, our sincerity. What is is the product of the map of reality you carry inside you. If you want to change your experience, you need to change the map.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

The eldership must clarify direction and beliefs for the flock. It must set goals, make decisions, give direction, correct failures, affect change, and motivate people. It must evaluate, plan, and govern. Elders, then, must be problem solvers, managers of people, planners, and thinkers.

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on what seemed to me to be their flaws. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were *right* and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions

In our neighbourhood you believed the same things as everybody else, you wore the same clothes as everybody else and you planned to go into the same job as your father.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.