#belief

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#free-thought #freedom-of-expression #rationality #freedom

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#belief #hardwork #life #love #life

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#belief #god #life #peace #religion

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #atheist #beginning #belief #cause

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#beliefs #conditioning #cultural-conditioning #culture #eduction

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#belief #bridges #certainty #fear #life

Own your creativity. You are creative with the same juice that flows in all of life. The question is not whether you are creative enough but whether you will free yourself to express it. ↗

— Ian Roberts

#creativity #life

What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem. ↗

— Russell Banks

#beliefs #doing #life

The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #peace #reality #truth #life