Quotes About Beliefs

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

Unlike classical liberalism, which saw the government as a necessary evil, or simply a benign but voluntary social contract for free men to enter into willingly, the belief that the entire society was one organic whole left no room for those who didn't want to behave, let alone "evolve.

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Nuestro tabú contra comer perros dice algo de ellos y mucho de nosotros. Los franceses, que adoran a sus perros, aveces se comen a sus caballos. Los españoles, que adoran a sus caballos, aveces se comen a sus vacas. Los indios, que adoran a sus vacas, aveces se comen a sus perros.

Quienes dicen que el arte no debe propagar doctrinas suelen referirse a doctrinas contrarias a las suyas.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

Myths are the mental supports of rites; rites, the physical enactments of myths.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Europe is, for the most part, a hugger-mugger continent that works best on the consensus of inertia and precedent. Those who have dogmatic and contrarian beliefs can cause disproportionate ructions and ripples in our overcrowded and hierarchical communities.

Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar....

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs

When ideas survive it's not because they're true - it's because they are interesting. What makes an idea interesting is that it changes our weakly heald opinions.

When ideas survive it's not because they're true - it's because they are interesting. What makes an idea interesting is that it changes our weakly held opinions.

Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.

En cuestiones de estilo, nade con la corriente", dicen que aconsejaba Thomas Jefferson, pero "en cuestiones de principios, sea sólido como una roca",

La gran masa de un pueblo no se compone de filósofos y es principalmente para las masas para quienes la fe constituye la única base de una ideología moral. Los diversos sustitutos no han probado su eficiencia ni su conveniencia, para que se hubiera podido ver en ellos una provechosa compensación de las creencias religiosas existentes.

My commitment to human rights has always been the core of my work in Congress, as I am legislating for those unhoused, for those protesters often criminalized for their beliefs, and for those patients in need of universal care.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.