Quotes 101 till 120 of 190.
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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
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That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small - better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
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