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| "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them |
| George Orwell |
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| A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in getting only two men, and not a single woman, decent enough to enter the promised land? (Num |
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
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| A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. |
| Joseph Addison |
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| A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence |
| David Hume |
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| And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning |
| Isaac Asimov |
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| As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. |
| George Eliot |
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| Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. |
| Lillian Hellman |
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| Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. |
| Robert Anton Wilson |
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| Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact |
| William James |
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| Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. |
| John Maynard Keynes |
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